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Publication details [#66953]
Jenssen, Anders Todal and Toril Aalberg. 2019. Why perceived political bias on TV does not inevitably lead to a polarized audience. The case of NRK and TV2 in Norway. Communications 44 (4) : 382–406.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
Despite widespread perceptions of partisan favoritism in the Norwegian TV market, this study find few traces of a politically polarized audience. The main reason for this is that the public broadcaster still draws a wide audience across the political spectrum, as even critics consider this news source as too important and relevant to be ignored.