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Bernard Richard Goldberg (born May 31, 1945), also known as Bernie Goldberg, is a ten-time Emmy Award-winning 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.

Personal background

Goldberg was born in New York City, New York in 1945^[1] and graduated from Rutgers College in 1967.^[2]

Career

From 1972 to 1974 he worked for CBS News as a producer in Atlanta; he became a reporter in 1974 and correspondent in 1976.^[1] Goldberg frequently contributed to the CBS Evening News and CBS newsmagazines Eye to Eye with Connie Chung and 48 Hours. For CBS, he hosted two primetime documentaries, Don't Blame Me and In Your Face, America.^[3] Don't Blame Me was broadcast on May 26, 1994 and explored alleged irresponsibility of Americans.^[4] In Your Face, America, which aired on April 7, 1998, said that American culture suffers from a "coarsening" instigated by entertainment such as The Jerry Springer Show, South Park, and gangsta rap music.^[5]

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. On an episode of the Phil Donahue talk show on MSNBC, political pundit and comedian Al Franken challenged Goldberg over a claim in Bias that a 1991 John Chancellor quote about the Soviet Union was "liberal hate speech".^[6]

Goldberg followed Bias with two books — Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite in 2003 and 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America in 2005. Boston Globe journalist Cathy Young -- praised by Goldberg in 100 People -- criticized the book for listing mostly liberal or liberal-leaning individuals and only "a Few Token Right-Wingers". There were also many favorable comments about the book including one from Jonah Goldberg (no relation) who said, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America is a rollicking and revealing look at 100 of the most egregious obstacles on the path of our nation's return to glory" and Brent Bozell, who commented: "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America is out, and it's a wonderful read for anyone not on that list."^[7]

Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve followed in 2007, then came A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media in 2009. Both books were also national bestsellers with A Slobbering Love Affair hitting number two on the New York Times list.

Awards

Goldberg has been awarded an Emmy for journalism ten times (six at CBS News, four at HBO). For his June 2000 segment "Dominican Free For All", in which he investigated corrupt Major League Baseball recruiting practices in the Dominican Republic, Goldberg won a Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Sports Journalism". He won that award again in 2005 for his story exposing Saudi Arabia's illegal use of young boys as camel jockeys, in 2008 for a story about post-concussion syndrome suffered by some former NFL players, and in 2009 for a story on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel about the slaughter of racehorses that were no longer making money for their owners. ^[8][9] Goldberg 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. ^[10]

Books

• Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News ISBN 0-06-052084-1
• Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite ISBN 0-446-53191-X
• 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America ISBN 0-06-076128-8
• Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind, and the Other Lost Its Nerve Published by HarperCollins, 2007, ISBN 0061252573, ISBN 9780061252570
• A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media ISBN 1596980907

References

External links

• Bernard Goldberg Official Website
• Liberals in Love Interview with Bill Steigerwald
• Chapter excerpts and essay by Bernard Goldberg about Bias Publisher official Goldberg web site.

From Wikiquote

Bernard Goldberg (born 1945) is an American writer, journalist, and political commentator.

Sourced

• This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
  • Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (2001)

• It doesn't happen that way.
  • Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.
  • Goldberg Predicts Collapse of Liberal Media Newsmax.com. Phil Brennan (April 11, 2003)

• 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, & not mainstream, but fringe.
  • The Bernard Goldberg Interview RightWingNews.com John Hawkins, 2001. Today's 'Liberals': Close-Minded, Nasty and Fringe Newsmax.com. Bernard Goldberg (October 16, 2003)

• They're responsible for the problem [of cultural meanness].
  • Referring to residents of both U.S. coasts.
  • Bernard Goldberg: Coastal residents "responsible for the problem" of vulgarity; transcript of NBC Today Show (August 11, 2005)

• I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
  • Everyone Loves a List Newsweek. Carl Sullivan (July 30, 2005)

Unsourced

• By the way, that was a long overdue suggestion.
  • Response to Alan Colmes pointing out Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate.
• The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.
• The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
• Anybody who cares about the culture they are living in. There is a tremendous disconnect between regular, ordinary Americans who live in the middle of the country and what Tom Wolfe calls the 'blue parentheses' on both coasts. Culture has gotten too angry, mean and vulgar.
• A slow poison is running through the veins of this great country, and our tolerance of crap is just a small part of it. This is a book about those people, a whole bunch of different people who are screwing things up in a whole bunch of different ways.
• [In] 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America ... The most that can honestly be said of those involved in Sept. 11 is that they finally responded in kind to some of what this country has dispensed to their people of a matter of course.

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