A distinguished political scientist, Tim Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor Groseclose has also taught at Caltech, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State University and Harvard. His new book is Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.
For years, conservatives have been saying, “The media are biased.” For just as many years, liberals have been saying, “Oh, yeah? Prove it.” Now Tim Groseclose has proven it. Drawing on years of research and statistical analysis laid out in Left Turn, Groseclose explains how he measures the political leanings of ordinary Americans, the level of bias in any chosen media company, and how this media bias powerfully affects elections. He concludes by offering ways of combating media bias and explaining the role the Internet plays in exposing this bias.
About Timothy Groseclose
Dr. Tim Groseclose is the holder of the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center. He has held previous faculty appointments at UCLA, Caltech, Stanford, Ohio State, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon University.
In 1987 he received a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Stanford University. In 1992 he received a Ph.D. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
He has published Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind and Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA.
He has published articles in several scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Science Review, and American Journal of Political Science.
About Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution’s channel on YouTube hopes to encourage discussions, generate ideas, and disseminate information, which will help secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.
While the Hoover Institution welcomes comments from YouTube viewers, we exercise the right to monitor the comments we receive. We will delete comments that include obscenities, swear-words and vulgarisms; ad hominem attacks; racist expression; rudeness or discourtesy; violations of copyright; or any other transgression of taste or civility that the editors deem unpublishable on a Hoover Institution Web site. The editors recommend that commenters use their real names when posting. If commenters post under a screen name, we reserve the right to delete the comment. We reserve the right, also, to close down comments on a particular video if the editors believe we have reached “saturation” point.
