The comments in response to my recent post on Barack Obama’s book led, predictably, to the topic of media bias. Media bias is one of the hottest topics among economists these days. A sampling of some recent academic work on the topic: Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo estimate how left-wing or right-wing media outlets are based on what research by think tanks they mention in their stories. They then c
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