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Books : Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the NewsIn association with Amazon.comby: Bernard Goldberg  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.86 You Save: $2.09 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 302.23450973 EAN: 9780060520847 ISBN: 0060520841 Label: Harper Paperbacks Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: February 01, 2003 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Release Date: January 21, 2003 Studio: Harper Paperbacks Sales Rank: 9721 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting Message Gets Lost In Details of Author's Personal StoryAn interesting perspective on how the news gets "crafted" both knowingly and unknowingly. Unfortunately Goldberg's message was frequently undermined by the author himself. He wants it known that the book is not an attempt to get back at some of the media elites who vehemently disagreed with his viewpoint. However the fact that he repeatedly belittles and denigrates those same elites (with a pretty whiny tone) made me question Goldberg's own objectivity, judgment and ability to respect other opinions. ... Read More Rating: - Goldberg is a Whistleblower On the Left-Wing MediaEmmy 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 ... Read More Rating:  - The Other Side of the Story You're Not GettingI just finished reading Bias and now see the "news" through a new perspective. This book is full of great examples of how the information we receive from the major news outlets, whether it be from TV, magazines or newspapers, is most always slanted from the side of those reporting it and by their own personally held beliefs and views. Surprisingly enough, the people reporting the news don't see it this way and are in fact very much in denial of it. Goldberg was ostracized by his industry after ... Read More Rating:  - Completely worthlessThis book was required reading in one of my high school English classes. I was against the very idea of the book from the very beginning, and I admit that. However, I found this book not to be agitating or contrary to my political beliefs, but humorous and almost completely devoid of substance. Let me first say that many of the examples that Goldberg uses to illustrate his points are vague and he fails at many points to give specific information or credentials about the people he's quoting. ... Read More Rating: - 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 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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