Advertising and political bias in the media: the market for criticism of the market economy.
From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
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Date: 7/1/2002
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Author: Sutter, Daniel
Many observers of the media argue that advertiser support of the news insulates business from critical scrutiny. News organizations know better than to bite the hand that feeds them. I examine several weaknesses in this corporate advertising bias argument. Most significantly, a favorable political climate for business is a public good, so individual businesses have an incentive to support anti-business messages that generate an audience. Transmission of messages that fail to generate ...
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