The Global Wire Conversation - Media Bias and its consequences with Tim Groseclose

In today's episode of The Global Wire Conversations I am speaking with Dr. Tim Groseclose about bias in the Media and its consequences for politics and the public discourse.

Dr. Tim Groseclose a professor of economics at George Mason University and the holder of the Adam Smith chair at the Mercatus Center. He has held previous faculty appointments at UCLA, Caltech, Stanford University, Ohio State University, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University. His research has focused on Congress, the media, and mathematical models of politics. He has recently published two books, Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA and Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. He has published more than two dozen scholarly articles, including several published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics. You can find out more about him on his homepage http://timgroseclose.com/ and follow him on his Twitter account https://twitter.com/tim_groseclose