This was interesting, because to me it seems like a lot of media bias is caused less by reader demand and more by journalist demand - journalists are a relatively left leaning bunch so they want to write relatively left leaning news. At a left wing newspaper that’s fine, but at a more centrist place they might imbue content with more slant than the commercial optimum just because of who’s writing (not even necessarily on purpose!)
I would of course believe that demand side plays a big role, but until I get some sort of math that its *not* the journalists I guess I’ll continue to believe it’s both
This was interesting, because to me it seems like a lot of media bias is caused less by reader demand and more by journalist demand - journalists are a relatively left leaning bunch so they want to write relatively left leaning news. At a left wing newspaper that’s fine, but at a more centrist place they might imbue content with more slant than the commercial optimum just because of who’s writing (not even necessarily on purpose!)
I would of course believe that demand side plays a big role, but until I get some sort of math that its *not* the journalists I guess I’ll continue to believe it’s both
> Perhaps the cure for illiberal autocracy is its consequences.
Despite the cure, the number of illiberal autocracies remains unsettlingly high.