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and exits had no noticeable effect on voting for particular parties, although they did affect

political participation (Gentzkow et al., 2010). Galvis et al. (2013) find that although

newspapers in the United States in the nineteenth century were indeed more likely to

cover political scandals of their political opponents and less likely to cover political scan-

dals of the politicians from their preferred parties, this effect was mitigated by media com-

petition. In particular, if during the scandal a co-partisan newspaper was the only one in

the local media market, it was likely to devote significantly less space (if any) to the scan-

dal. However, in media markets with competing newspapers that were affiliated with

other parties, even co-partisan ...