[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 191 (Tuesday, December 13, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H8744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                      LEFT TURN, BY TIM GROSECLOSE

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Professor Tim Groseclose of UCLA has 
recently published a book, ``Left Turn, How Liberal Media Bias Distorts 
the American Mind.'' He uses clearly defined quantitative measures to 
evaluate the bias of media outlets.
  In ``Left Turn,'' he scientifically measures the political content of 
media outlets and converts that content into a slant quotient of an 
outlet. To measure the bias, he compares slant quotients of news 
outlets to the political quotients of the typical American voter and 
political leaders.
  Groseclose concludes that the great majority of all national media 
outlets have a liberal bias. He also points out the conservative bias 
of a very few outlets, but he determined their conservative bias is 
less than the liberal bias of most national media.
  Mr. Speaker, Dr. Groseclose also cites evidence that the media has 
shifted the political views of Americans and caused them to be more 
liberal. So media bias is both real and unfortunate.

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