Framing in the Presence of Supporting Data: A Case Study in U.S. Economic News

arXiv:2402.14224v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The mainstream media has much leeway in what it chooses to cover and how it covers it. These choices have real-world consequences on what people know and their subsequent behaviors. However, the lack of objective measures to evaluate editorial choices makes research in this area particularly difficult. In this paper, we argue that there are newsworthy topics where objective measures exist in the form of supporting data and propose a computational framework to analyze editorial …

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