Left turn
Subtitle: how liberal media bias distorts the American mind
By: Tim Groseclose
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780312555931
Subjects: Press and politics; Objectivity; Conservatism; Journalism; Liberalism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What are PQs and how do they reveal media bias?; title: Caught in a trap: problems in judging media bias; title: But I've been to Oklahoma; title: PS and QS of PQs; title: Defining "the center"; title: Lies, damned lies, and omitted statistics : a case study in distortion theory; title: Hidden under a bushel; title: An "alien" conservative injected into a liberal newsroom and the topics she might cover; title: Political views in the newsroom: viva homogeneity; title: The second order problem of an unbalanced newsroom; title: The anti newsroom: Washington County, Utah; title: Walk a mile in the shoes of a centrist; title: "Wise men from the center on budget and policy priorities say"; title: The language of journalists and the special case of partial-birth abortion; title: The language of journalists and the Gentzkow-Shapiro measure of media bias; title: Facts about the Bush tax cuts: another way to measure media bias objectively and quantitatively; title: The media mu; title: Measuring the influence of the media I: many methods false and spent, and one that's not; title: Measuring the influence of the media II: two more groundbreaking experiments; title: The media lambda; title: Rendezvous with clarity; title: Walk a mile in the shoes of a centrist whose mind has not been distorted by media bias; title: Epilogue.