APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
It’s News to Me: Political Affiliation and Evaluation of News Source Quality and Partisan Bias
- Jeremy Hermanson
Bridgewater State University - Elizabeth Spievak
Bridgewater State University - Pamela Hayes-Bohanan
Bridgewater State University
Abstract
Participants’ self-reported political beliefs were compared to their ratings of the quality and partisan bias of 12 sources of news. Strong political beliefs predicted significant differences in the perceived quality and partisan bias of news sources, particularly for Republican and conservative participants.
Politics