Do People Watch What They Do Not Trust?: Exploring the Association Between News Media Skepticism and Exposure

Yariv Tsfati; Joseph N. Cappella

doi:10.1177/0093650203253371

Do People Watch What They Do Not Trust? Exploring the Association Between News Media Skepticism and Exposure

Yariv Tsfati, Joseph N. Cappella

Department of Communication

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Abstract

This article explores a possible association between skepticism toward the media and audience exposure patterns, Hypotheses predicting a relationship between media skepticism and news media consumption are tested on four large sample data sets. Findings show that media skepticism is negatively associated with mainstream news exposure but positively associated with nonmainstream news exposure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	504-529
Number of pages	26
Journal	Communication Research
Volume	30
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650203253371
State	Published - Oct 2003

Keywords

Media skepticism
News exposure
Trust

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Communication
Linguistics and Language

Access to Document

10.1177/0093650203253371

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