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| Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News | 
 enlarge | Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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ISBN: 0060520841
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23450973
EAN: 9780060520847
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Publication Date: February 1, 2003
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 Goldberg doesn't understand why he was ostracized at CBS May 19, 2008
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.
 I was one of the people who dug into this fraudulent book's claims April 7, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I did several Lexis-Nexis searches that were what Bernard Goldberg lied and claimed he'd done. The results were never close to what he said, and in fact were often the exact opposite. Those of us posting on blogs and forums about this realized Goldberg was making a centerpiece of his book searches he had been too lazy to do and too cynical to think his target audience (Regnery-buying Limbaugh and Hannity and Coulter fans) would ever be exposed to.
All of his books depend on outrageous claims - media owners lie about their politics, the man who was tossed over the most trivial lack of provenance on one of his stories' sources (and the typographical nonsense in the right-wing echo chamber was proven false top to bottom, by the way) actualy ran CBS news. All polls that show Americans to the left of Bush are faked, as are all social statistics and the casualty counts in Iraq.
They're fascism porn. And Goldberg's leading the charge to debase education, the national debate and news.
 A must read January 28, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr. Goldberg has simply and clearly revealed what we all knew as true but were unable to prove. The major media outlets treat us all as children and fools and feed us our daily propaganda pablum. With the insights that Goldberg articulates so clearly perhaps now we can decipher the "news" for what it clearly is. At least we'd be in a position to not be led down the path they have chosen for us to tread. A must read!
 Courageous Revelations September 10, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was a much needed book and it was extremely courageous of Goldberg to write it. The foundation for the book is an op-ed he wrote in the Wall Street Journal in February 1996. The op-ed chastised a CBS report that was clearly biased against a Republican presidential candidate; Goldberg stated that "The old argument that the networks and other media elites have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore." Those comments upset his CBS employers and eventually led to his resignation five years later. This is the story of that op-ed, the reaction to it, especially from Dan Rather, and Goldberg's excellent defense of his comments. In the process, he talks about the severe hypocrisy and double standards that dominates the insulated members of the liberal media. Many in that liberal circle know the bias exists, yet don't care or openly deny it. What makes this a compelling story is it comes from a veteran insider who admits he's not a conservative, never voted for a Republican president, and still has liberal views. It is a quick, easy, and at times hilarious account of how one person decided to 'out' the liberal elites that dominate the information market. Necessary reading given the politicized nature of our society since 9/11.
 Enough with the "liberal media" scam September 10, 2007
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
The right-wing establishment has milked this cow dry. [yawn] You want bias? Fox News and its minions should keep you busy for days.
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