Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.
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Though political elites complain about what the media covers, and how they cover it, research shows that ideological bias among media outlets is largely nonexistent.
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Ph.D. candidate, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Florida State University
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Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
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Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
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Reader in English, University of Dundee
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Independent Researcher, Media Studies, University of Oregon
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Lecturer of History and Media Studies, California State University, East Bay
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Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education, University of Virginia
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University