Privatization and Self-Regulation as Tropes of Global Media Restructuring There is a power to language itself in affecting media reform around the world. The field of media regulation is filled with examples of strong ideas, encapsulated in words and phrases, that have an enormous impact on legislative transformation, and the export of which seems a characteristic of globalization. Just think of the ideology-laden tropes
(Harvard University and NBER) October 1, 2002 Abstract There are two dierent types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, re ects a news outlet's desire to aect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which we refer to as spin