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Bernard Goldberg (born 1945) is a writer and a political comentator for Fox News. 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. In 2001, his first book Bias was published and became a number one New York Times bestseller. It's a book that focuses on the non-existent bias within the media. Goldberg followed Bias with two more national bestsellers—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. To date he has been unable to prove this theory.

"I have many conservative friends at CBS News and some even agree with my take on bias—privately. Publicly, they won't say a word, fearing they will be proved wrong." - Goldberg

Criticism

Goldberg has received a lot of criticism for his research or lack thereof. Al Franken called into question the veracity of several of the chapters of Goldberg's book Bias and Goldberg had no response. Goldberg has been cited on several occasions as being a convenience researcher. Meaning he will "conveniently" leave out certain aspects of the whole truth, or a point he is trying to make is "conveniently" too perfect.

Awards

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 the exploitation of children as camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates. It marked the first time that a sports program had won a duPont award.

Quotes

  • "I consider myself to be an old-fashioned liberal. I'm a liberal the way liberals used to be when they were like John F. Kennedy and when they were like Hubert Humphrey. When they were upbeat and enthusiastic and mainstream. I am not a liberal the way liberals are today at least as exemplified by Al Franken and Michael Moore, where they're angry, nasty, closed minded, & not mainstream, but fringe."
  • "It doesn't happen that way." - Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.
  • "I'm responsible for the problem." - Referring to people who live on the east and west coasts of the United States.
  • "I truly believe Fox News is fair and balanced."
  • "I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys."
  • "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.

Books

References

  1. Joe Hartlaub, bookreporter.com review of Bias

External links

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