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An experimental investigation of news source and the hostile media effect

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Abstract

This study examined the interaction among different news sources, individual levels of partisanship, and the hostile media effect in sports news. Two hundred and three participants read a balanced story about their home-town college football team in one of three newspapers: the home-town, the cross-state rival university's town, or a neutral-town paper. The study found differences in the hostile media effect across conditions, suggesting the importance of news source in the phenomenon. Further, findings indicate strong support for the hostile media effect among sports news consumers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)265-281
Number of pages17
JournalJournalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Volume80
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

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