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Summary: Fun and enlightening read.
Review: Well, now that you can get a used copy of this book for the price of a latte, why not get it? An insider blows the whistle on CBS news! I can't really write anything that hasn't already been written, but I can say that I sure enjoyed this book.This book's one downfall to me is that it comes across as one long rant, but maybe Mr. Goldberg deserves to rant a bit after what he's been through.
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Summary: Potentially good, if it wasn't so biased.
Review: Bernard Goldberg had a great opportunity to write an objective book about media bias toward the left. Instead he chose to use this book as a platform for his personal attacks against Dan Rather and other media elites. In the begining of his book, he compares the media to the mafia and complains that he "got whacked." It was difficult to continue the book, but as I plodded through his whine fest, I found that Mr. Goldberg brings up many valid points. Too bad he used a right-wing slant to do so. I for one, like so many people, do not belong to either side of the politics, but prefer information to persuasion.
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Summary: Thank God for this book!
Review: This book is amazing. So well written and incredibly gutsy, Goldberg tells the world exactly what should be known. I am a journalist for my high school paper and even within the small classroom, there is a certain Liberal bias. Several of my stories have not been printed because they take a Conservative angle, and for that, they are deemed too controversial and not appropriate for school. Liberal bias is evident in all forms of the American media, and this book graciously exposes the truth. Goldberg exemplifies all the qualities that a strong, objective, truthful, and unbiased journalist should take into the work room and it is a travesty that he was fired from CBS. Bernard Goldberg, I salute you!
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Summary: Slanted Journalism----The Battle for your Mind & Pocketbook
Review: Over 30 years ago, an uncle of mine told me of the inherent bias in network news. But I never knew what to look for until I read Bernard Goldberg's BIAS. At great personal sacrifice to his family and his career, he courageously explains why he went public, starting with a Feb. 13, 1996 editorial in the Wall Street Journal, about the inherent liberal bias in network news shows. He cites detailed examples; he names names; and he gives reasons why it is being done. More importantly, he will put into your hands and your mindset the tools with which you can analyze the news and the news media so that you can arrive at some semblance of undistorted news. He will also reveal why you see certain types of television shows but not others.
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Summary: Great Book on all aspects
Review: This book is set apart from other conservative readings for it was written by a inside guy. Goldberg describes all aspects of the media bias from inside the newsroom. Must read for any conservative. "In the world of the media elites, there are moderates and right-wing whackos"
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Summary: This book changed my life.
Review: I'm a technician, a geek. I don't read history or follow politics. After reading this book I have been brushing up on my history, listening to talk radio, and have a collection of books from Regnery Publishing. I even have an opinion. This book was the first of a series of eye-openers. I won't be cleaning my guns in the compound out west, heating my home with waste products and purifying water from the well, but I'm now aware of those who have been prevented from exercising their god given rights for no good reason.... Yeah, I used to think Noam Chomsky was right on top of things.
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Summary: Must be Taken at Face Value
Review: Bernard Goldberg does a thorough job examining the liberal bias in mainstream media. However "folksy" and anectdote-riddled his writing may be, the point of this text comes across very well. He is adept at spotting subtle "bias" in news (and entertainment, though to a lesser extent) and manages to introduce the reader to what, exactly, makes a news report biased. Unfortunately, my biggest problem with this book was also one of its strongest points. As it is written from Goldberg's own experience in the media (28 years at CBS), this book also becomes a forum for Goldberg to speak personally about those who has encountered in the news media. While this serves to essentially present the reader with a first-hand account of the perceived bias, it also tends to bias this text itself, as well. Another drawback to this book was the manner in which it is written. Rather than citing (perhaps in a more dry, scholarly manner) instances of evident "bias" in the media (though you don't have to look much further than your own local television station), Goldberg writes the same as he would hold a conversation. It makes for light reading. The lack of intellectual stimuli from this book, however, can be overcome: This book is meant to fuel contemplation, not to think *for* you. In this arena, it accomplishes its task quite well. However rudimentary this introduction is, it still does make some very strong points. Goldberg is able to articulate many different points about bias in the news - ie, there obviously shouldn't be a left-leaning bias, but, of course, there also shouldn't be a right-leaning bias evident in the news, either. He speaks without any clear alliance to the "right" or "left," however "right" he may be.
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Summary: Refreshing
Review: The great shame of this book is how little real reform within the media has occured as a result of this book.
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Summary: a review from a non-partisan reader
Review: I had to read this and Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them for a class. As far as using anecdotes to get his message across, Goldberg does a good job. The problem that I had with this book is that in his attempt to be critical of the "liberal bias" that he claims exists in the media, Goldberg comes across as self-righteous, and just as arrogant as the journalists he is criticizing. I had a difficult time reading this because I 1) do not identify as either liberal or conservative, and 2) read Franken's book first (in which Goldberg's information-gathering process is ripped nearly to shreds). My very Republican friend read through Bias in a day. I urge everyone to read this book for themselves, watch and read the news on their own, and come to their own conclusions.
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Summary: ON THE LAMENTABLE QUALITY OF AMERICAN FISH & CHIPS...
Review: Okee-Dokee...I have now slogged through Mr. Goldberg's book on how the media is too liberal and Mr. Alterman's book on how it is actually too conservative. Having survived, I now come back up the mountain to give you all my opinion. The problem with both of these books is best expressed by comparing them to the main weakness of your typical domestic order of Fish & Chips. Here in America one has no problem finding good chips (take a good look at our collective waistelines) but the Fish is rarely, if ever, fried to perfection. Both authors fail to even fry the right fish here. Both Alterman (who by the way is probably the most engaging guest ever to appear on C-Span's Washington Journal) and Goldberg (whose recent work on HBO's Real Sports proves him to be a journalist of first rate talent) dance nicely through their themes and critiques. I'll even be super-generous and say that they are both mostly right in what they say. The problem is this--for all their beautiful dancing, their failure to percieve what should be their true quarry is fatal. Both books become mere partisan babble. Each author, spouting partial arguments that ultimately turn inward, is left, much like the featured ballerina in Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, dancing to their own death. Yes the media is too liberal. Yes the media is too conservative. Both Goldbeg and Alterman argue this well. They then declare the case closed. If only it were. The gutwrenching truth of it all is that the media is only as liberal and as conservative as its owners need it to be to serve certain interests. We live in the age of megolithic media control. There is no real diversity in major media. The minute there is, it is either co-opted or bought out. The media plays faux conservatitism or zirconium liberalism to serve the needs of its owner's real politik and to pit any possible opponents against one another in the name of tired ideology. I may be biased, but I never saw either of these books getting around to addressing this. Though superbly written (golden-crispy fries if you will), both of these pieces of fish are underdone and a little greasy.
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