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ISBN. 0-89526-190-1. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News is a non-fiction book by Bernard Goldberg, a 28-year veteran CBS news reporter and producer, giving detailed examples of liberal bias in television news reporting. It was published in 2001 by Regnery Publishing [1] and reached number 1 on The New York Times Best ...
Cadillac Desert (1986) is an American history book by Marc Reisner about land development and water policy in the western United States.Subtitled The American West and Its Disappearing Water, it explores the history of the federal agencies, Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and their struggles to remake the American West in ways to satisfy national settlement goals.
Sokal affair. The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, [ 1] was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's ...
JSTOR (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ s t ɔːr / JAY-stor; short for Journal Storage) [2] is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. [3]
The history of water supply and sanitation is one of a logistical challenge to provide clean water and sanitation systems since the dawn of civilization. Where water resources, infrastructure or sanitation systems were insufficient, diseases spread and people fell sick or died prematurely. Astronaut Jack Lousma taking a shower in space, 1974.
Self-selection bias is a major problem in research in sociology, psychology, economics and many other social sciences. [1] In such fields, a poll suffering from such bias is termed a self-selected listener opinion poll or "SLOP". [2] The term is also used in criminology to describe the process by which specific predispositions may lead an ...
Bias and Mental Testing has been subject to over 200 book reviews, and has been listed by the journal Current Contests as a citation classic. [1] It also is described as the definitive text on the topic of bias in IQ tests. [6] [7] The content of the reviews has ranged from technical criticisms to ad hominem attacks and extravagant praise.
Claims of media bias in the United States generally focus on the idea of media outlets reporting news in a way that seems partisan. Other claims argue that outlets sometimes sacrifice objectivity in pursuit of growth or profits. Some academics in fields like media studies, journalism, communication, political science and economics have looked ...