Left Turn, Tim Groseclose
Left Turn, Tim Groseclose
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Left Turn
How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind

Author: Tim Groseclose

Narrator: Buck Groat

Unabridged: 12 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2021


Synopsis

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 these: (i) all mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias, and (ii) while some supposedly conservative outlets?such as 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, listeners can easily calculate their own PQ and decide for themselves if bias exists.

About Tim Groseclose

Tim Groseclose, PhD, is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at UCLA, where he has joint appointments in the political science and economics departments. His research focuses on Congress, the media, and mathematical models of politics, and he has published more than two dozen scholarly articles as well as the book Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. He currently lives with his family in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bojan

In a different universe, a book like this one would never have been written. Not because it’s in any way false (it’s as far from it as it is intellectually possible), nor because its subject matter is uninteresting or boring. No, this kind of book ought not to have been written because in a perfectl......more

Goodreads review by Billie

Tim Groseclose's Left Turn pushes one main thesis: that news media outlets are overwhelmingly liberal, at least as liberalism is understood in American politics. Here's how he establishes the thesis. First, he identifies what would constitute liberalism, and he defines it in terms of what the libera......more

Goodreads review by David

An amazing read, and one that everyone who consumes the new should read. Why? Because there are two competing views of the media in the US. one is that it is slanted (Left or Right depending upon one's particular politics), and the second is that the slant of the media has little to no effect on the......more