Bernard Goldberg

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Bernard Richard Goldberg‎
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Born 31 May 1945 (age 62)
New York City, New York
Occupation Journalist and author
Website
Official website

Bernard Richard Goldberg‎ (b. 31 May 1945 in New York City, New York) is an American writer, journalist, and political commentator.

Goldberg is currently a commentator for Fox News and a correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. His 2005 book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, has received significant press attention.

Goldberg worked for CBS as a reporter for 28 years, where he won 6 Emmy Awards. At HBO he won 2 Sports Emmy Awards for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and a DuPont-Columbia Award[1]. Goldberg frequently contributed to the CBS Evening News and 48 Hours, a CBS newsmagazine.

In 1996, Goldberg wrote an op-ed column in The Wall Street Journal, accusing network news operations of harboring liberal bias.

After the The Wall Street Journal article appeared, Goldberg shifted the focus of his work to what he perceives to be an elitist or liberal bias in media, and particularly in the reporting of news. In 2001, his first book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News was published and became a number one New York Times bestseller. Goldberg followed Bias with two more national bestsellers—Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite and 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. His new book, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, was released in stores on April 17, 2007.

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[edit] Response to Goldberg

[edit] Awards

In addition to the Emmy Awards that Goldberg has won, he received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, in 2006 for a story on the exploitation of children in the United Arab Emirates. It marked the first time that a sports program had won a duPont award, which is considered to be one of the most prestigious journalism awards. [2]

[edit] Criticism and controversy

Comments and published works by Goldberg have, in some cases, generated negative responses and criticism. On an episode of the Phil Donahue talk show on MSNBC, Al Franken challenged Goldberg over a claim in Bias that a 1991 John Chancellor quote about the Soviet Union was "liberal hate speech".[3]

His book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America has been criticized for listing mostly liberal or liberal-leaning individuals, but no "overzealous or corrupt government regulators", and though several conservative individuals are also listed, some people view that their actions are less harshly criticized. [4]

[edit] Quotations

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
  • "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, and not mainstream, but fringe."[5][6]
  • "It doesn't happen that way." - Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.[7]
  • "The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone."[8]
  • "They're responsible for the problem [of cultural meanness]." - Referring to residents of both U.S. coasts.[9].
  • "I guess I'm conservative on some issues, but on certain social issues, I'm quite liberal. I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys."[10]
  • "By the way, that was a long overdue suggestion" - Response to Alan Colmes pointing out Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate [11]

[edit] Books

[edit] References

  1. ^ HBO: Bernard Golderg Bio
  2. ^ Realsports Awards HBO.com. December 14 2005.
  3. ^ Transcript MSNBC Donahue Show January 6, 2003
  4. ^ The Book on One-Sidedness The Boston Globe, August 15, 2005
  5. ^ The Bernard Goldberg Interview RightWingNews.com John Hawkins, 2001.
  6. ^ Today's 'Liberals': Close-Minded, Nasty and Fringe Newsmax.com. Bernard Goldberg, October 16, 2003
  7. ^ Goldberg Predicts Collapse of Liberal Media Newsmax.com. Phil Brennan, April 11, 2003.
  8. ^ Bernard Goldberg Quotes
  9. ^ Bernard Goldberg: Coastal residents "responsible for the problem" of vulgarity; transcript of NBC Today Show, August 11, 2005.
  10. ^ Everyone Loves a List Newsweek. Carl Sullivan, July 30, 2005
  11. ^ "Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity " Washingtonpost.com. April 16 2006

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