Cable news schedule today is programed with a transition between objective reporting and subjective commentary. With this in mind, we address the question: to what extent does political ideology impact one’s estimation of factual content in the monologue of a partisan news host? Going beyond direct effects, we analyze two moderated mediation models, using news host as moderator and using parasocial relationship and source credibility as parallel mediators. Results show like-minded partisanship with a news host led to higher estimates of factual content, and this effect worked indirectly through credibility perceptions. Additionally, this process occurred more intensely for conservatives.

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“这是事实！”：政治意识形态、PSR 和感知来源可信度在估计党派新闻中的事实内容中的作用

今天的有线新闻节目安排在客观报道和主观评论之间进行过渡。考虑到这一点，我们解决了一个问题：政治意识形态在多大程度上影响了一个人对党派新闻主持人独白中的事实内容的估计？超越直接影响，我们分析了两种调节中介模型，使用新闻主持人作为中介，使用准社会关系和来源可信度作为平行中介。结果显示，与新闻主持人志同道合的党派关系导致对事实内容的更高估计，这种影响通过可信度感知间接发挥作用。此外，这个过程在保守派中发生得更为强烈。