Media bias and the climate issue
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Online resource
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OUPblog
Publication Date
6-18-2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Abstract
How do individuals manipulate the information they privately have in strategic interactions? The economics of information is a classic topic, and mass media often features in its analysis. Indeed, the international mass media play an important role in forming people’s perception of the climate problem. However, media coverage on the climate problem is often biased.
Media reporting our paper are vivid examples of the prevalence and variety of media bias in reporting scientific results. While our analysis investigates the media tendency of accentuating or even exaggerating scientific findings of climate damage, the articles misinterpret our results, accentuate and exaggerate one side of our research, and completely omit the other side.
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Recommended Citation
Hong, F., & Zhao, X. (2014). Media bias and the climate issue. OUPblog. Retrieved from: https://blog.oup.com/2014/06/media-bias-climate-change-information-economics/