One nation, under war: Did the language of Fox News and MSNBC converge during the invasion of Ukraine?
Journal: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
Year: 2023

Abstract Evidence suggests that political differences have increased markedly in the United States in recent decades. Differences may also emerge in the way that partisans express themselves through language, and it is possible that language differences vary in times of crisis and war. In the current work we examined over a decade's worth of transcripts from a liberal (MSNBC) and conservative (Fox) news network. More specifically, we examined evidence for two competing perspectives on language d