# 2 - "Left Turn" - A Report Card

#2 - “Left Turn” – A Report Card
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, August 12, 2011

This book by Tim Groseclose is a game changer for traditional American advocates, including the U.S. Catholic Church: +++ Let’s check the Introduction # 1 of 2:

Discussions about Media bias can really inflame people’s passions. In the spring of 2002, I began a research project with Jeff Milyo, who at that time was public policy professor at the University of Chicago. Our goal was to create a method that would objectively measure the bias of the media

In social science we have lots of precise numerical devices that measure how liberal or conservative politicians are. There ought to be something similar for the media. Three and half years later, after thousands of hours of gathering and analyzing data, we achieved that goal.

For twenty major news outlets, we estimated a score, between 0 and 100, that described how liberal each outlet was. The beauty of the scores, which I now call slant quotients, is that they are directly comparable to political quotients. This means that they can answer questions such as (i) “Is the New York Times to the left or right of Hillary Clinton?” or (ii) “Is Fox News to the left or right of J. McCain?”

The results generally agreed with the claims of conservatives… our method found that 18 of the 20 outlets were left of center. The only two were not were The Washington Times and Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume…

Then came the firestorm. Our study was denounced by hundreds, and may thousands, of left-wing blogs, including Media Matters, the Daily Kos, and Huffington Post. At one point if you Googled “crap UCLA study,” most of the first ten listings would refer to our study… Many blogs attacked Milyo and me personally and tried to insinuate that right-wing groups had paid us to fudge our results. The e-mails were even more vicious…

In a more recent debate, I told him [One of my colleagues at UCLA, whom I’ll call Byron B. Bright (a staunch liberal) who may be the smartest political scientist on the planet, “No, it’s not true that liberals and conservatives are equally decent. Liberals have worse manners; they go to church less; they more often live in aggressive, urban environments; they shout people down at public speeches; and they use more vulgarity when they talk.”… His response, “Funny how all those well-mannered conservatives favor preemptive strikes against innocent Iraqis.”…

George H. Kubeck

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