From The Publisher: The Biggest Story the Media Won't Cover The mainstream media have a fundamental role in our democratic process, one that it is essential to the health of the Republic, not to put too fine a point on it. So it is in everyone's interest that they not only survive, but also be widely respected. This book is not about proving the existence of liberal...
Read moreFrom The Publisher: The Biggest Story the Media Won't Cover The mainstream media have a fundamental role in our democratic process, one that it is essential to the health of the Republic, not to put too fine a point on it. So it is in everyone's interest that they not only survive, but also be widely respected. This book is not about proving the existence of liberal bias in the media...Ultimately it is about making things better. The naked emperors can continue to deny and dissemble on the bias question, proudly marching on with their privates dangling in the breeze, but while they've been marching, the ship has already sailed. And the fat lady stopped singing a long time ago. They need to be saved-from themselves. This is an attempt to reach out to every American with an open mind. Regardless of whether you're conservative or liberal or somewhere in between, this book will challenge your ideas...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.About The Author:BERNARD GOLDBERG was a CBS News correspondent for twenty-eight years and is the winner of seven Emmy Awards, six at CBS and one for his work at HBO's critically acclaimed Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. At CBS News, Goldberg covered stories all over America and much of the world for the CBS Evening News and 48 Hours. He also brought his unique perspective to the news in a special CBS Evening News segment, Bernard Goldberg's America. Books that have left an impression me: almost anything Tom Wolfe has written, especially his early non-fiction; George Orwell and Shelby Steele; John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Robert Wright's The Moral Animal.My favorite book as a kid was The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop. About 5 or six years ago I re-read it to my then young daughter and loved it all over again. So did she.
