“Bogeyman terms”: Understanding politically conservative Americans’ folk theories about news bias
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
Published online on June 02, 2025
Abstract
Journalism, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 1229-1248, May 2026.
This study unpacks how U.S. political conservatives conceptualize news bias by interpreting data from a survey (N= 3467) and in-depth interviews with a subset of survey participants (n= 91) who self-identify as political conservatives. We found they ...
This study unpacks how U.S. political conservatives conceptualize news bias by interpreting data from a survey (N= 3467) and in-depth interviews with a subset of survey participants (n= 91) who self-identify as political conservatives. We found they ...