出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997.
Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that
during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to
topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health care, labor
and social welfare), when the incumbent President is a Republican. This is
consistent with the hypothesis that the New York Times has a Democratic
partisanship, with some "watchdog" aspects, in that -during the presidential
campaign- it gives more emphasis to issues over which the (Republican) incumbent
is weak. In the post-1960 period the Times displays a more symmetric type of
watchdog behaviour, just because during presidential campaigns it gives more
more coverage to the typically Republican issue of Defense when the incumbent
President is a Democrat, and less so when the incumbent is a Republican
关键词：News, media, information, elections, media bias, New York Times, issue ownership
