1999/12/01 by David Domke, Mark D. Watts, Mark Watts +2 · 131 citations
Social Sciences · #Argument (complex analysis) #Content analysis #Context (archaeology) #History #Law #Media Influence and Politics #Media Studies and Communication #Media bias #Media coverage #Media studies #News media #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Presidential campaign #Presidential system #Public opinion #Social Media and Politics #Social science #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02816.x
published in Journal of Communication 49(4), 35-58 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 1999/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27
Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presidential campaigns? Findings suggest that these criticisms of news media are at least partly strategic and reflect a dynamic relationship between political elites and journalists during a presidential campaign.