Left Turn
How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind
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Publisher Description
A leading political science professor provides scientific proof of media bias in this sure-to-be-controversial book
Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to measure the PQ, or "political quotient" of voters and politicians.
Among his conclusions are: (i) all mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias; and (ii) while some supposedly conservative outlets—such the Washington Times or Fox News' Special Report—do lean right, their conservative bias is less than the liberal bias of most mainstream outlets.
Groseclose contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, the difference between the current political views of the average American, and the political views of the average resident of Orange County, California or Salt Lake County, Utah. With Left Turn readers can easily calculate their own PQ—to decide for themselves if the bias exists. This timely, much-needed study brings fact to this often overheated debate.
Customer Reviews
A must read for new consumers
If you consume the news...then you need to know how the perceptions and ideals of the person providing that news to you changes what you get. Many believe that he media has a Bias, but the author in this work takes it much further. He analyses articles by new outlets and uses analysis to determine the slant of that article. That in and of itself would make the book worthwhile, but he takes it even further. He then computes the effect that this media slant has on voters, the results are astounding. You may not like the results, but it is hard to argue with the technique which is based upon peer reviewed papers published by the author and his co-researchers.