IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/socsci/v100y2019i1p307-319.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?

Author

Listed:
  • Eran Shor

Abstract

Objectives This article examines whether newspapers’ political leaning affects coverage tone for individuals in the news and whether the gender of the person covered affects this relationship. Methods I analyze sentiment data on millions of person‐names from more than 200 major American newspapers between the years 2004 and 2009, juxtaposing them with various measurements for the political leaning of these newspapers. Results Results show mixed support for the idea that political leaning in the media affects coverage patterns for individuals in the news. While newspapers located in states that are more likely to vote for Republicans cover women in a more negative way, I find no relationship between political leaning scores and coverage sentiment for men. Conclusions The study shows mild support for the proposition that relatively liberal newspapers are more likely to cover women and women's issues in a positive way.

Suggested Citation

  • Eran Shor, 2019. "Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 100(1), pages 307-319, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:100:y:2019:i:1:p:307-319
    DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12563
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12563
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/ssqu.12563?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:100:y:2019:i:1:p:307-319. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0038-4941 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.