{{short description|American academic (born 1964)}} {{Infobox person | name = Timothy Groseclose | image =File:Tim Groseclose Headshot.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Timothy Jay Groseclose | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1964|9|22|mf=y}} | birth_place = Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. | alma_mater = Stanford University | employer = George Mason University | occupation = Economist | spouse = Victoria Groseclose (née DeGuzman) | children = 2 | relatives = Elgin Groseclose }} '''Timothy Jay Groseclose''' (born September 22, 1964) is an American academic. He is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center.
==Early life== Timothy Groseclose was born on September 22, 1964, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<ref name="officialcvwebsite">{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vita|url=http://timgroseclose.wpengine.com/curriculum-vita/|website=Tim Groseclose |date=26 June 2011 |access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref>
He was graduated from Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1983.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/> He graduated from Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematical and computational sciences in 1987.<ref name="georgemasontim">{{cite web|title=Timothy Groseclose|url=http://economics.gmu.edu/people/tgrosecl|website=George Mason University College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Economics: Faculty and Staff |access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref> He received a PhD in Political Economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1992.<ref name="georgemasontim"/>
==Academic career== Groseclose started his academic career as assistant professor of political science and political economy at Carnegie Mellon University from 1992 to 1995.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/> He served as assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University from 1996 to 1998.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/>
Groseclose became a tenured associate professor of political economy at his alma mater, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, in 1998, where he taught until 2003.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/> He was then associate professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2003 to 2005, and became full professor in 2005.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/> In 2006, he also became professor of economics at UCLA.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/> He later served as the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at UCLA.<ref name="collegefix">{{cite news | last = Potter | first = Ellie | title = Meet the professor who gladly left UCLA and hasn't looked back | url = http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/23782/ | work = The College Fix | date = August 14, 2015 }}</ref> However, he felt ostracized as a conservative faculty member, and decided to resign.<ref name="collegefix"/>
Groseclose is professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center.<ref name="collegefix"/>
==Research on American media liberal bias== thumb|Tim Groseclose speaking at the Miller Center In 2005, Groseclose co-authored an article with Jeffrey Milyo, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, in the ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', entitled "''A Measure of Media Bias''".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Groseclose | first1 = Tim | last2 = Milyo | first2 = Jeffrey | title = A measure of media bias | journal = Quarterly Journal of Economics | volume = 120 | issue = 4 | pages = 1191–1237 | publisher = Oxford Journals | doi = 10.1162/003355305775097542 | date = November 2005 | s2cid = 54066953 | doi-access = | hdl = 10355/2637 | hdl-access = free }} [https://5harad.com/mse231/papers/groseclose_milyo_mediabias.pdf Pdf.]</ref> The article suggested the American media had a liberal bias.<ref name="huffingtonterry">{{cite news | last = Krepel | first = Terry | title = Tim Groseclose's theory of liberal media bias remains shaky | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/tim-groseclose-bias_b_1015889.html | work = Huffington Post | date = October 28, 2011 }}</ref> Drawing upon this article, Groseclose published "''Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind''" in 2012.<ref name="huffingtonterry"/> The book suggests that all media outlets in the United States are left-leaning.<ref name="usnewspaul">{{cite web | last = Bedard | first = Paul | title = Book: Liberal Media Distorts News Bias: Drudge, Fox look more conservative against mainstream's liberal bent | url = https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/06/16/book-liberal-media-distorts-news-bias | website = usnews.com | publisher = U.S. News & World Report | date = June 16, 2011 }}</ref> He adds that conservative media outlets like Fox News and the Drudge Report are only moderately conservative.<ref name="usnewspaul"/> Furthermore, he goes on to argue that the left-wing media bias influences American voters to lean left.<ref name="usnewspaul"/> If it were not for media bias, he claims that the US would think and vote like a solid red state, such as Texas or Kentucky. He also suggests that Republican candidate John McCain would have won the 2008 United States presidential election.<ref name="usnewspaul"/>
In a review for ''The Washington Times'', L. Brent Bozell III, the president of the Media Research Center, praised Groseclose's "fierce intellectual honesty," explaining, "He makes no bones about his own political biases."<ref name="washingtontimesbrent">{{cite news | last = Bozell III | first = Brent | title = Book Review: "''Left Turn: How Media Bias Distorts the American Mind''" | url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/12/can-math-prove-media-bias/?page=all | work = The Washington Times | date = September 12, 2011 }}</ref> Brozell also praised Groseclose's willingness to accept peer review, even from liberal critics.<ref name="washingtontimesbrent"/> However, he was critical of the preponderance of "quantitative mathematical formulations" at the expense of "qualitative analysis."<ref name="washingtontimesbrent"/> Similarly, he dismissed Groseclose's use of "statistical jargon" as "pure mumbo-jumbo that the layman just must accept."<ref name="washingtontimesbrent"/> Meanwhile, in the ''Huffington Post'', Terry Krepel suggested Groseclose was "more interested in trying to forward a conservative agenda than objective research."<ref name="huffingtonterry"/> He also criticized the "lack of attention to detail in Groseclose's book that raises questions about his larger conclusions."<ref name="huffingtonterry"/> In addition, GMU Economics professor and co-author of the Marginal Revolution blog, Tyler Cowen, stated, “This book serves up the most convincing evidence for media bias I have seen, ever. Tim Groseclose is the leading academic scholar in the area, but this is a smartly-written book which every person can read for enlightenment and also for pleasure.”<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Left Turn {{!}} Tim Groseclose PhD {{!}} Macmillan|url = http://us.macmillan.com/leftturn/timgroseclose|website = Macmillan|access-date = December 2, 2015 }}</ref> Furthermore, Steven Levitt, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of Freakoconomics took the position that, “I'm no conservative, but I loved ''Left Turn''. Tim Groseclose has written the best kind of book: one that is firmly anchored in rigorous academic research, but is still so much fun to read that it is hard to put down. Liberals will not like the conclusions of this book, which in my opinion, is all the more reason why they should want to read it.”<ref name=":0" />
Others have not been as favorably inclined towards the methodology of the measure. Brendan Nyhan, an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College argues that left and center-left think-tanks have more credentialed experts with peer-reviewed publications than conservatives, which may result in a greater number of citations by the press, which seeks out expert perspectives on the news, but not more citations by members of Congress, who generally seek out views that reinforce their own.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Nyhan | first = Brendan | author-link = Brendan Nyhan | title = Review symposium: Does the US media have a liberal bias? A discussion of Tim Groseclose's "''Left Turn: How Media Bias Distorts the American Mind''" | journal = Perspectives on Politics | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 767–771 | publisher = Cambridge Journals | doi = 10.1017/S1537592712001405 | date = September 2012 | s2cid = 14168016 }}</ref>
Gasper (2011) shows that the estimates are sensitive to the time period under examination and that removing a single think tank shifts estimates dramatically.<ref name="Gasper2011">{{Cite journal |last=Gasper|first=John T. |title=Shifting ideologies? Re-examining media bias | journal = Quarterly Journal of Political Science | volume = 6 | issue = 1 | pages = 85–102 | publisher = Now Publishing Inc. | doi = 10.1561/100.00010006 | date = August 2011 }}</ref> Additionally, the estimates of media bias do not comport with more direct measures of media bias derived from computational text analysis<ref name="BudakGoel2016">{{cite journal | last1 = Budak | first1 = Ceren | last2 = Goel | first2 = Sharad | last3 = Rao | first3 = Justin M. | title = Fair and balanced? Quantifying media bias through crowdsourced content analysis | journal = Public Opinion Quarterly | volume = 80 | issue = S1 | pages = 250–271 | publisher = Oxford Journals | doi = 10.1093/poq/nfw007 | date = November 2005 | s2cid = 15468241 }}</ref> or sometimes face validity.
==Personal life== Groseclose is married to Victoria Groseclose (née DeGuzman).<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/> They have two children.<ref name="officialcvwebsite"/>
==Bibliography== *''Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind'' (New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2012). *''Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA'' (Dog Ear Publishing, 2014).
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==External links== *[http://timgroseclose.wpengine.com/ Official website] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1EQiKq_J1s Youtube: Hoover Institution: Tim Groseclose—Media Bias] *[http://www.c-span.org/person/?timgroseclose Appearances on C-Span]
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