The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress
@article{Clinton2014TheNN, title={The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress}, author={J. Clinton and Ted Enamorado}, journal={The Journal of Politics}, year={2014}, volume={76}, pages={928 - 943} }
Despite the prominence of the national news media, it is unclear whether elected officials are affected by the national news media in policy-consequential ways because of the difficulty of disentangling the influence of the media on Congress from Congress’s influence on the media. We use a unique opportunity to determine whether position-taking behavior in Congress and the likelihood of reelection is affected by the national news media. Using the fact that the Fox News Channel spread gradually… Expand
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