Adam Rennhoff and Kenneth Wilbur revised some of the methodology...
Adam Rennhoff and Kenneth Wilbur revised some of the methodology in their FCC media ownership study, Local Media Ownership and Viewpoint Diversity in Local TV News, a filing at the FCC said. “We find a statistically significant result for only…
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one media ownership variable: co-ownership of local television stations,” the revision said (http://xrl.us/bn8o8f). “Specifically, we find that viewpoint diversity is positively associated with increases in the number of co-owned television stations within a market.” An earlier version of the study had found all associations between viewpoint diversity and ownership variables “statistically indistinguishable from zero” (http://xrl.us/bn8o8o). Rennhoff is an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University and Wilbur is an assistant professor at Duke University.