{"id":9643,"date":"2021-10-02T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=9643"},"modified":"2021-10-02T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:08:14","slug":"new-paper-out-the-left-liberal-skew-of-western-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2021\/10\/new-paper-out-the-left-liberal-skew-of-western-media\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper out: The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., &amp; Carl, N. (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/353756955_The_Left-liberal_Skew_of_Western_Media\">The left-liberal skew of Western media<\/a>. Journal of Psychological Research, 3(3).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>We gathered survey data on journalists\u2019 political views in 17 Western countries. We then matched these data to outcomes from national elections, and constructed metrics of journalists\u2019 relative preference for different political parties. Compared to the general population of voters, journalists prefer parties that have more left-wing positions overall (r\u2019s -.47 to -.53, depending on the metric used), and that are associated with certain ideologies, namely environmentalism, feminism, social liberalism, socialism, and support for the European Union. We used Bayesian model averaging to assess the validity of the predictors in multivariate models. We found that, of the ideology tags in our dataset, \u2018conservative\u2019 (negative), \u2018nationalist\u2019 (negative) and \u2018green\u2019 (positive) were the most consistent predictors with nontrivial effect sizes. We also computed estimates of the skew of journalists&#8217; political views in different countries. Overall, our results indicate that the Western media has a left-liberal skew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The main plots speak for themselves:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9644\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_logRR-1024x666.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_logRR-1024x666.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_logRR-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_logRR-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_logRR-1536x998.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_logRR-2048x1331.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9645\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d.png 3000w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d-1024x666.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d-1536x998.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/mean_rating_d-2048x1331.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9646\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/tags_nice_medians-1024x666.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/tags_nice_medians-1024x666.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/tags_nice_medians-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/tags_nice_medians-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/tags_nice_medians-1536x998.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/tags_nice_medians-2048x1331.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9647\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biased-scientific-process-1024x375.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biased-scientific-process-1024x375.png 1024w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biased-scientific-process-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biased-scientific-process-768x282.png 768w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biased-scientific-process-1536x563.png 1536w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biased-scientific-process-2048x751.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<p>One hour video walkthrough!<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Left-Liberal Skew of Western Media\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BW3nrTfeOG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All data files you can download too! <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/6uvnu\/files\/\">https:\/\/osf.io\/6uvnu\/files\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s finally out! Out big meta-analysis of journalist voting patterns. Kirkegaard, E. O. W., Pallesen, J., Elgaard, E., &amp; Carl, N. (2021). The left-liberal skew of Western media. Journal of Psychological Research, 3(3). We gathered survey data on journalists\u2019 political views in 17 Western countries. We then matched these data to outcomes from national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":9646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856,2049],"tags":[2677,2984,1755],"class_list":["post-9643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-studies","category-metascience","tag-journalists","tag-media-bias","tag-meta-analysis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9648,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9643\/revisions\/9648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}