Bernard Goldberg
Bernard Goldberg (
1945â€") is a writer and television reporter. For nearly thirty years, he was with
CBS; his reporting won multiple
Emmy Awards.
In 1996, Goldberg wrote an op-ed column in the
Wall Street Journal, accusing network news operations of harboring liberal bias. The editorial resulted in Goldberg's ostracism from CBS.
[ Joe Hartlaub, bookreporter.com review of Bias] In 2001, his first book
Bias was published and became a number one New York Times bestseller. Goldberg followed
Bias with two more national bestsellersâ€
" Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite and
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.
Goldberg believes that there is a
liberal bias which is often not conscious. Rather, he claims in his book
Bias that these views are so entrenched into people's thinking in these circles, and they so rarely encounter contrary views among their peers, that they think they are "normal," i.e., are blind to their own biases.
I have many friends at CBS News and some even agree with my take on bias—privately. Publicly, they won't say a word, fearing repercussions.
Some have criticized Goldberg for his views though. In
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Goldberg ranks President
Jimmy Carter (number 6) above the Unknown American Terrorist (number 23). Conservative media critic
Brent Bozell has attacked Goldberg for his book, claiming that Goldberg merely lifted material he had been producing for years, and only published the book because he had an axe to grind with his former employers and was attempting to make a "quick buck", noting that Goldberg never mentioned the alleged liberal bias of the media until it was "convenient" and "profitable" for him to do so.[
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Goldberg has won eight Emmys for excellence in journalism and is a correspondent on the HBO Sports magazine,
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. In 2006 he won the most prestigious award in broadcast journalism, the
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, for a story on modern-day child slavery in the
United Arab Emirates. It marked the first time that a sports program had won a duPont award.[
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*"They're closed-minded and nasty - and fringe." - Goldberg's position on American liberals.[
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*"It doesn't happen that way." - Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.[
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*"They're responsible for the problem." - referring to people who live on the east and west coasts of the
United States.[
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*"I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys."[
6]
*"By the way, that was a long overdue suggestion" - response to
Alan Colmes pointing out
Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator
Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself" on the floor of the senate
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News ISBN 0-06052-084-1
Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite ISBN 0-44653-191-X
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America ISBN 0-06-076128-8
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Goldberg Variations: Evil genius or useful idiot? We report, you decide Michael Kinsley's critique of Bernard Goldberg
