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How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization
Part of Elements in Politics and Communication
- Authors:
- Joshua P. Darr, Louisiana State University
- Matthew P. Hitt, Colorado State University
- Johanna L. Dunaway, Texas A & M University
- Date Published: April 2021
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108948098
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Local newspapers can hold back the rising tide of political division in America by turning away from the partisan battles in Washington and focusing their opinion page on local issues. When a local newspaper in California dropped national politics from its opinion page, the resulting space filled with local writers and issues. We use a pre-registered analysis plan to show that after this quasi-experiment, politically engaged people did not feel as far apart from members of the opposing party, compared to those in a similar community whose newspaper did not change. While it may not cure all of the imbalances and inequities in opinion journalism, an opinion page that ignores national politics could help local newspapers push back against political polarization.
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- Date Published: April 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108948098
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 150 x 230 x 5 mm
- weight: 0.15kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
1. What we did on our summer vacation
2. Why local newspapers matter
3. How the opinion page changed
4. Polarization cools off in the desert
5. The future of the opinion page
6. References.
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