Reviews for Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

The average rating for Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-20 00:00:00 Taylor Starr This book helped me to understand that the liberal bias I see in the news/Hollywood (which I always assumed was common knowledge but I guess not, judging by the Goodreads reviews of this book) is not the result of a massive left-wing conspiracy. Reporters tend to be very liberal, and so they actually see the news from a very liberal perspective. That was comforting, but at the same time depressing. I got fired up about many parts of the book. The acceptability of lambasting men on the news, the stereotypical "dumb dad" on every sitcom, makes me boiling mad (what are we doing to society? to our families? to the men we love?). And probably nowhere was I more outraged than in the chapter on daycare. I feel very strongly that we are doing our kids a big disservice by allowing them to spend 40 hours a week in daycare, and that kids DO need a parent home full-time, and that you CAN'T have it all as a parent, and I feel that it's become explosively un-PC to even suggest such a thing anymore. I think the media has worked really hard to create an environment where such things just aren't said out loud, and is pretty proud of itself for having done so. The only complaint I have about the book is the endless personal attacks on Dan Rather, despite the vehement assertion "I have no personal vendetta against The Dan." Really hurts Goldberg's credibility, in my opinion. Obviously he had some issues with Rather to work through, but I wish he would have done it in his personal journal rather than in a published work of non-fiction.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-06 00:00:00 Leander Mase The MSM can't handle the truths this book reveals! "BIAS" by Bernard Goldberg God bless Bernie Goldberg for having the balls and the chutzpah to write this OutSTANding book. A longtime veteran of the mainstream candidate (who "never voted for a Republican for president in my life!") with the courage and audacity to admit--and expose--what his fellow MSM types were to loath to admit: that, yes Virginia, the MSM *is* liberally biased, no matter how much they try to deny it. Of course, Mr. Goldberg's colleagues (especially "The Dan," i.e. Dan Rather), in the words of Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup in "A Few Good Men," "CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH," and therefore tried to make a pariah out of the author. RANDOM STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS (and noteworthy passeges): --Dan Rather as Mafia capo, nice. --Steve Forbes' flat tax one-sided coverage --"Far-fetched? Just think back to that famous observation by the New Yorker's otherwise brilliant film critic Pauline Kael, who in 1972 couldn't figure out how Richard Nixon had won the presidency. 'I can't believe it!' she said. 'I don't know a single person who voted for him!' Nixon carried forty-nine states to McGovern's one, for God's sake'and she wasn't kidding!" --"These are people who love to take on politicians and businessmen and lawyers and Christians and the military and athletes and all sorts of other Americans, yet when one of their own writes an opinion piece about American Journalism, then you've crossed the line . . . because taking on the media is like raping their wives and kidnapping their kids!" --1989, CNN reporter inflates the homeless number from 462,000 to THREE MILLION!!! And other MSM journalists inflated the number even more from there!! --"And we live by the journalist/ social worker motto: Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted." A-HA, just what one of my fellow Daily Trojan student newspaper colleagues had repeatedly told me during our undergrad days at USC!! --Matt Lauer reference! --Gil Garcetti; wow, what a slimy bloodsucker! --"If arrogance were a crime, there wouldn't be enough jail cells in the entire United States to hold all the people in TV news." Haha, zing! --"The ship be sinking....The sky's the limit," haha, zing. --"Only in the fickle world of television news can someone who has disappeared without a trace disappear a second time." Oh, snap. --"According to the media elites' rule-book, when liberals rant it's called free speech; when conservatives rant it's called incitement to terrorism." --Great points about the Dan's (and liberals' in general) infatuation with Fidel Castro. --"'You have to understand that Dan Rather is Richard Nixon,' Jon told me. 'If he sees you as an enemy even for a second, you're an enemy for life. And like Nixon, Rather must destroy his enemies.'"