Volume 66 (2018), Edition 3

Right-wing populist groups’ accusations of a ‘lying’ press and the increasing fear of the effects of fake news on public opinion formation give rise to the question of how trust in the news media can be explained. Social psychological theories...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about the reform of the press was a reaction to the commercialisation of the media, and was essentially concerned with the socialisation of newspaper advertisements. At the time, the Social Democratic...