Bias : A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News - by Bernard Goldberg - The book that Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge are talking and writing about.
Bernard Goldberg is a veteran CBS News Correspondent. Bernard Goldberg has contributed to many broadcasts and reported on a wide variety of issues and subjects since joining CBS News in 1972.
While he was a correspondent for Eye To Eye With Connie Chung, Goldberg won an Ohio State Award for his Eye to Eye report on the decline of civilization in the last 30 years. He also hosted the acclaimed "Don't Blame Me," a one-hour primetime Eye to Eye special that explored the trend in American culture towards refusing to take responsibility for one's actions.
Goldberg was a cornerstone of the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours (1988-1992). He was named a special correspondent for the broadcast in March 1989, having served as a staff correspondent since its premiere in January 1988. Goldberg's work for 48 Hours earned him six Emmy Awards, an Ohio State Award, and a Sigma Delta Chi award. In all, he contributed more than 100 reports to 48 Hours.
In January 1992, Goldberg helped launch the CBS newsmagazine Street Stories. One of his segments, a report on an innocent man sentenced to life for purse-snatching, resulted in the man's release from prison. Goldberg also was a contributing correspondent to the CBS News primetime series Verdict, broadcast in the summer of 1991.
Goldberg has been a correspondent based in New York for the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather (1981-88) and a frequent contributor to CBS News specials. Goldberg returned temporarily to the CBS News bureau in Atlanta on election nights in 1984 and 1982 to report on voting trends in the South.
Before coming to New York, Goldberg was based in the CBS News San Francisco bureau (1977-1981), where he covered the 1980 presidential campaign of former California Governor Jerry Brown and the 1976 Republican National Convention, among other stories.
Goldberg joined CBS News in April 1972 as a producer based in Atlanta. He became a reporter in 1974 and a correspondent in 1976. Goldberg has traveled throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, China, Japan, and the former Soviet Union.
Prior to joining CBS News, he was an investigative reporter for WPLG-TV Miami (1970-1972), a producer/writer for WTVJ-TV Miami (1969-1970), and a writer/editor for The Associated Press in New York (1967-1969).