Left turn : how liberal media bias distorts the American mind /
Groseclose, Timothy.
Left turn : how liberal media bias distorts the American mind / Tim Groseclose. - 1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011. - x, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
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.
9780312555931 (hardcover) 0312555938 (hardcover) 9781250002761 (paperback)
2011005975
Journalism--Objectivity--United States.
Journalism--Political aspects--United States.
Press and politics--United States.
Liberalism--United States.
Conservatism--United States.
PN4888.O25 / G76 2011
302.230973
Left turn : how liberal media bias distorts the American mind / Tim Groseclose. - 1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011. - x, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
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.
9780312555931 (hardcover) 0312555938 (hardcover) 9781250002761 (paperback)
2011005975
Journalism--Objectivity--United States.
Journalism--Political aspects--United States.
Press and politics--United States.
Liberalism--United States.
Conservatism--United States.
PN4888.O25 / G76 2011
302.230973