Washington Post today: "The Fox Effect"

Fascinating piece in the Washington Post today on "The Fox Effect," a study conducted by two economists that suggests that Fox News' permanent and growing influence can be explained by the balanced coverage it offers, a coverage that, by definition, tends to neutralize and counteract a leftward bias in its media competitors. The study authors, Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California at Berkeley and Ethan Kaplan of Stockholm University, additionally discovered obvious evidence of a Fox effect among non-Republicans in the presidential and Senate races, even after controlling for other factors including vote trends in similar nearby towns without access to Fox. In other words, evidence that FNC is not shading the news to favor Republicans (very bad news for the critics in the MSM out there.) The complete study is here. It's scholarly stuff, but it's also real-time history in the making, and worth reading.

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