Reporting Public Opinion: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News

Reporting Public Opinion: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News
ISBN-10
3030753506
ISBN-13
9783030753504
Category
Political Science
Pages
143
Language
English
Published
2021-07-31
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Erik Gahner Larsen, Zoltán Fazekas

Description

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media. Opinions polls are not reported in the media as unfiltered numbers, and some opinion polls are not reported at all. This volume demonstrates how opinion polls travel through several stages that eventually turn boring numbers into biased news in the media. The framework offered in this book helps to understand how some polls end up in the news coverage, and which systemic biases abound in the news media reports of opinion polls. In the end, a change narrative will be prominent in the reporting of opinion polls which contributes to what the general public sees and shares. The findings cover journalists, politicians, experts and the public, and how they all share a strong preference for change.

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