Synopses & Reviews
In his #1 New York Times bestseller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg created a national firestorm when he exposed the liberal biases of the so-called mainstream media. Now Goldberg takes on Big Journalism and punctures the bubble in which the media elites live and work-a culture of denial where contrary views are not welcome. With blistering wit and passion, Goldberg offers a twelve-step program to help journalists overcome their addiction to slanted news and exposes the main culprits of arrogance in the media. He reveals: How the media's coverage of the Jayson Blair scandal missed far more serious problems at the New York Times Why the media refuse to shoot straight when the subject turns to guns Which CBS News icon is "transparently liberal," according to commentator Andy Rooney Why some think the top journalism school in America is an intellectual gulag How some journalists, like Bob Costas and Tim Russert, do get it-and how they think American journalism can be made better.
Review
"His analysis...is not without its persuasive qualities, though undermined by rather obvious deck-stacking, condescension toward opposing viewpoints and intermittent outrageousness." Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
The #1
New York Times bestselling author of
Bias exposes the culture of narrow-minded elitism in the media and reveals what must be done to change it.
In December of 2001, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg charged the mainstream media with slanting the news and created a firestorm with his controversial bestseller Bias. Now Goldberg goes beyond identifying the media's partiality and explains how the slanting of the news is all but inevitable in the current climate and why the media's stars continue to deny the industry's condition. In this fascinating report, Goldberg lays out his rallying cry, unafraid to name names, and prescribes the difficult remedies that must take place if genuinely balanced news is to survive.
Synopsis
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bias exposes the culture of narrow-minded elitism in the media and reveals what must be done to change it. In this fascinating report, Goldberg lays out his rallying cry, unafraid to name names, and prescribes the difficult remedies that must take place if genuinely balanced news is to survive.
About the Author
Bernard Goldberg lives in Miami, Florida.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
A (Very) Few Minutes with Andy Rooney 21
File It Under "H" 31
Mauling the Messenger 34
One Cheer for Honesty! 49
Root Causes 52
A Conversation with Tim Russert 78
Barbara Walters, Guardian of Standards 86
A (Black and White) Hollywood Ending 87
Pass the Mashed Potatoes, Please 100
What Liberal Media? Part 1 124
Who Stole Journalism? 127
And the Nobel Prize for Hillary-Gushing Goes To... 146
Speaking of Sports and a Lot More with Bob Costas 152
What Liberal Media? Part 2 163
Original Sin 165
And Now, the Rest of the Story... 185
What Liberal Media? Part 3 197
Actually, I Don't Have an Opinion on That 200
You Can't Make This Stuff Up 208
Welcome to the Gulag 209
That's Entertainment! 218
Liberal Bias? Never Mind! 221
Quagmire! 227
Twelve Steps 237
Step 1: Face Up to the Problem 238
Step 2: Lose the Enablers 241
Step 3: A Newsroom That Thinks Like America 248
Step 4: No More Balkans 252
Step 5: Teach the Children Well 254
Step 6: Stop Following the Leader 258
Step 7: Don't Stack the Deck 261
Step 8: Tell the Whole Story 266
Step 9: Don't Confuse Journalist with Activist 272
Step 10: Make Bias a Punishable Offense 276
Step 11: Expand Your Rolodex 280
Step 12: Stop Taking It Personally 295
A Final Word 296
Index 301