Left turn how liberal media bias distorts the American mind
Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ (political quotient) of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, which is the difference between the current political views of the average A...
| Main Author: | Groseclose, Timothy. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What are PQs and how do they reveal media bias?
- Caught in a trap: problems in judging media bias
- But I've been to Oklahoma
- PS and QS of PQs
- Defining "the center"
- Lies, damned lies, and omitted statistics : a case study in distortion theory
- Hidden under a bushel
- An "alien" conservative injected into a liberal newsroom and the topics she might cover
- Political views in the newsroom: viva homogeneity
- The second order problem of an unbalanced newsroom
- The anti newsroom: Washington County, Utah
- Walk a mile in the shoes of a centrist
- "Wise men from the center on budget and policy priorities say"
- The language of journalists and the special case of partial-birth abortion
- The language of journalists and the Gentzkow-Shapiro measure of media bias
- Facts about the Bush tax cuts: another way to measure media bias objectively and quantitatively
- The media mu
- Measuring the influence of the media I: many methods false and spent, and one that's not
- Measuring the influence of the media II: two more groundbreaking experiments
- The media lambda
- Rendezvous with clarity
- Walk a mile in the shoes of a centrist whose mind has not been distorted by media bias
- Epilogue.