Who Gets on the News? The relation between media biases and different actors in news reporting on complex policy processes

Iris Korthagen

Public Management Review, 2015, vol. 17, issue 5, 617-642

Abstract: Having a voice in media is important to gain power and legitimacy in policy processes. However, media are biased in transmitting information. Using a quantitative content analysis of ten years' news reporting around water management policies in the Netherlands, we study how much media attention different groups of actors receive and how media biases relate to this attention. Executive politicians get on the news because of their authoritative position; less authoritative actors getting on the news is more related to information biases. Information biases can thus function as a form of checks and balances in news reporting on policy processes.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.822529

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