Correlation between slant and frequency of use

Computational-Content-Analysis-2018 / 12-Jan-2-What-Drives-Media-Slant-Evidence-from-U.S.-Daily-Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew & Jesse M. Shapiro. 2007. “What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers.” Econometrica 78(1): 35–71.

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Correlation between slant and frequency of use #9

Open sushmitavgopalan16 opened 6 years ago

sushmitavgopalan16 commented 6 years ago

Would results change if we were able to distinguish between criticisms of certain ideas and an espousal of them? I could write several articles condemning an 'increase in the minimum wage' and still have it count as several instances of phrases used by Democrats and thus skew results.

HyunkuKwon commented 6 years ago

I think it is a very interesting topic. Your comment is totally valid, and it would be a very hard job to distinguish between those two cases. But at the same time, overall, the frequency of such 'condemning' expressions might not be significant enough, which would still make the inference plausible, if not complete.