Media bias and the climate issue

Fuhai HONG; Xiaojian ZHAO

Media bias and the climate issue

Fuhai HONG, Xiaojian ZHAO

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Abstract

How do individuals manipulate the information they privately have in strategic interactions? The economics of information is a classic topic, and mass media often features in its analysis. Indeed, the international mass media play an important role in forming people’s perception of the climate problem. However, media coverage on the climate problem is often biased. Media reporting our paper are vivid examples of the prevalence and variety of media bias in reporting scientific results. While our analysis investigates the media tendency of accentuating or even exaggerating scientific findings of climate damage, the articles misinterpret our results, accentuate and exaggerate one side of our research, and completely omit the other side.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2014
Externally published	Yes

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