Abstract
Drawing on interviews with a diverse group of adults living in the United States, this study examines news media literacy and how perceptions of personal bias and news bias affect news choices and interpretation in general and evaluation of two news stories specifically. Findings suggest that while people recognize that their worldviews shape their news choices in the abstract and believe that news bias occurs for a variety of complex reasons, when faced with analyzing stories, they point to political partisanship connected to specific news outlets as the root of bias in news with most relying on source cues to make their assessments.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 209-226 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journalism |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Accepted/In press - Jan 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2018.
Keywords
- Bias
- hostile media effects
- news
- news media literacy
- partisanship
- selective exposure
- source cues