Bias - a must read for politically engaged American citizens!

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	• Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News Bernard Goldberg Harper Paperbacks, 2003 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 849 reviews view larger image
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Goldberg doesn't understand why he was ostracized at CBS

Most of the book contains Goldberg's outrage for how he was ostracized at CBS news, according to him because he had the temerity to point out the obvious liberal bias in the news offerings of CBS and those of nearly every other major media outlet. However, even a cursory look at Goldberg's op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal that touched off the controversy shows quite plainly that his colleagues at CBS felt betrayed not because Goldberg had pointed out bias permeating all of journalism, but because he had dissected a CBS broadcast segment and named names.

Goldberg could easily have chosen any of hundreds of similar segments broadcast on other networks that would have had the same illustrative power as the example he chose, but which would not have left his coworkers feeling like he had pulled the rug out from under them. Goldberg was thereafter suspected of disloyalty by the others at CBS news specifically because he had betrayed them.

Similarly, earlier in the decade, two women who worked in editorial capacities at women's magazines were fired because they issued rants about their employers via blogs -- and this is important -- they mentioned their employers by name.

Goldberg tries to make the case for liberal bias in the media, but it is too obvious that he doesn't understand it's not his tubthumping on that issue per se that led to his downfall but the way he chose to make the point.

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Goldberg is a Whistleblower On the Left-Wing Media

Emmy Award winner Bernard Goldberg has thirty years of experience as an acclaimed reporter at CBS. But he turned that keen intellect and discerning investigative eye inward - seeing that the media avoided objective reporting on stories that didn't fit their left-wing agenda. Goldberg supplies numerous anecdotes about this left-wing tilt, fitting the news to PC agenda and viewpoint. And who suffers? The viewer and the reader who don't get real news but manufactured viewpoints. The corporate culture's closed mind about reexamining how their own agenda has damaged their profession is Goldberg's key point. Over and over again, he demonstrates how their agenda destroyed hard news reporting. This endemic attitude is demonstrated time and time again with the scandals at the New York Times over their racial preferences hiring which promoted an unqualified man to a position of power who created news stories. Dan Rather's rush to judgement - `Rathergate' - is another indication of left-wing bias. And, unbelievably, false reporting by Rather's producer Mary Mapes did not bring any shame or ridicule but I believe an award by her peers after the scandal. Goldberg is a whistleblower who deserves to be read, remembered and revered for his efforts.

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Bias - a must read for politically engaged American citizens!

Only the very naive or out of touch really doubt anti-conservative bias within the major media but Bernard Goldberg in his book Bias offers credible evidence in this incisive and revealing report on his own industry. Should you remain skeptical in the light of the specific examples covered by this well-respected CBS insider, you should at least ask yourself why he would lie. Many Americans appear to be sleeping through some of the most dangerous times our beloved United States has ever faced, willing to take whatever the talking heads present in the evening news as truth without question, consideration of opposing opinions, or checking the facts and making a decision on their own. A very timely topic, and a book that brings to light the serious dangers in being naive about what we believe from the six o'clock news. If you're prone to casually absorb news and information blindly from the mainstream media and assume it must be true because "you heard it on the news", this book is a wake up call!

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In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: to provide objective, disinterested reporting. Again and again he saw that the news slanted to the left. For years, Goldberg appealed to reporters, producers, and network executives for more balanced reporting, but no one listened. The liberal bias continued.

Now, breaking ranks and naming names, he reveals a corporate news culture in which the closed-mindedness is breathtaking and in which entertainment wins over hard news every time.

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