Bernard Goldberg
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Overview
Bernard Goldberg is a former CBS NEWS correspondent, eight time Emmy-winner, and American journalist, who was among the first of that profession to validate the term:liberal media since used by many conservative sources. Goldberg claims that after taking this position his friend Dan Rather never spoke to him again.
Goldberg politically is a moderate and says of the current politics of the US that:
- "I don't think it's been this split since the civil war."
Despite that view he refuses to come to any great general opinion of why:
- "Rather than defining liberal and conservative, I would say that if I came up with most of the big social issues our time, let's say abortion, let's say you're for abortion, let's say you're for gay marriage... there's a real good chance you're a liberal and not a conservative..."
Bibliography
Bernie Goldberg has written a few best-sellers.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (2001)
This was a New York Times bestseller.
Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite (November 2003)
This one was merely a "national bestseller".
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: (and Al Franken Is #37) (July 2005)
This book, published by media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.-subsidiary Harper Collins, tries to address what's wrong with civil discourse by marching through a list of -- as Goldberg believes anyway -- progressively more-destructive individuals, culminating with Michael Moore.
His comeplete list is excerpted below as an outline for discussion:
- 52. Markos Moulitsas (worse than Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Savage, but not quite as bad as Kenneth "Kenny Boy" Lay or Congressman Robert Byrd)
Complete List
(full details, goes to external site)
- Michael Moore, Filmmaker and author
- Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., New York Times publisher
- Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts Senator
- Jesse Jackson
- Anthony Romero Executive Director ACLU
- Jimmy Carter, Former President
- Margaret Marshall, Massachusetts Chief Justice
- Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist
- Jonathan Kozol, Author
- Ralph Neas, President of People for the American Way
- Noam Chomsky, Author, professor
- Dan Rather, Newsman and author
- Andrew Heyward
- Mary Mapes
- Ted Rall
- John Edwards, Congressman and former VP candidate
- Al Sharpton, Reverend
- Al Gore, Former Vice President
- George Soros
- Howard Dean
- Roy Moore, Judge
- Michael Newdow
- The Unknown American Terrorist
- Lee Bollinger
- James Kopp
- Dr. Martin Haskell
- Paul Begala
- Julian Bond
- John Green
- Latrell Sprewell
- Maury Povich
- Jerry Springer
- Bob Shrum
- Bill Moyers
- Jeff Danziger
- Nancy Hopkins
- Al Franken, Comedian and radio-host
- Jim McDermott, Congressman
- Peter Singer
- Scott Harshbarger, Former Massachusetts Attorney General
- Susan Beresford
- Gloria Steinem
- Paul Eibeler
- Dennis Kozlowski
- Ken Lay, Former Enron CEO
- Barbara Walters
- Maxine Waters
- Robert Byrd
- Ingrid Newkirk
- John Vasconcellos
- Ann Pelo
- Markos Moulitsas, Blogger
- Anna Nicole Smith
- Neal Shapiro
- David Westin
- Diane Sawyer
- Ted Field
- Eminem, Rapper
- Shirley Franklin
- Ludacris, Rapper
- Michael Savage
- Howard Stern, Radio-host
- Amy Richards
- James Wolcott
- Oliver Stone, Filmmaker
- David Duke
- Randall Robinson
- Katherine Hanson
- Matt Kunitz
- Jimmy Swaggart
- Phil Donahue
- Ward Churchill
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Katha Politt
- Eric Foner
- Barbara Foley
- Linda Hirshman
- Norman Mailer
- Harry Belafonte
- Kitty Kelley
- Tim Robbins, Actor
- Laurie David
- The Dumb and Vicious Celebrity
- The Vicious Celebrity
- The Dumb Celebrity
- Chris Ofili
- Sheldon Hackney
- Aaron McGruder
- Jane Smiley
- Michael Jackson
- Barbara Streisand
- Kerri Dunn
- Richard Timmons
- Guy Velella
- Courtney Love, Musician (or in Goldberg's words, whore)
- Eve Ensler
- Todd Goldman
- Sheila Jackson Lee
- Matthew Lesko
- Rick and Kathy Hilton, Parents of Paris Hilton