CBS NEWS VETERAN CALLED 'TRAITOR'; WRITES BOOK EXPOSING ELITE BIAS

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[pollwatcher]

CBS NEWS VETERAN CALLED 'TRAITOR'; WRITES BOOK EXPOSING ELITE BIAS **World Exclusive** In the first defection of its kind, a 28-year veteran of CBS NEWS has written a tell-all book which names names and exposes elite media bias and slated coverage of events. The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained the first copy of BIAS, A CBS INSIDER EXPOSES HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE NEWS -- an explosive new work by CBS NEWS veteran Bernard Goldberg. The book set for release in January, presents an unprecedented blueprint of media bias as documented by an insider. "Bernie Goldberg is a G-ddamn traitor," a CBS NEWS executive said late Friday. "The book is trash written by a bitter man who is now determined to settle a score." Writing that he's never voted for a Republican for elected office, Goldberg exposes the bias he witnessed first hand during the nearly three decades he spent at the network. Goldberg zeros in on CBS NEWS anchor Dan Rather and current CBS NEWS President Andrew Heyward, who is quoted as saying: "Look Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left." MORE

[WhatNot]

If the news outlet that he worked for has bias, and he knew about it.. why did'nt he write this book before or at least write a newspaper article, and if he did'nt do so is he not an accomplice to whatever bias he intends to reveal? I don't want to enrich him, I'll let you buy the book and then you can tell me, what I already know.

[Atticus]

Drudge aint too bad - He used to have a FR link a long time ago.

Yes, that's how I found FreeRepublic. By pulling up Drudge and clicking on the link to the "Whitewater Page."

[oldglory]

I order most of the Regnery Books, from the Library, whether I read them, or not.

This puts them, in circulation, throughout the County!

If I feel they're dragging their feet--I call repeatedly to *REMIND* them!

Our library system must order--we're TAXED enough!!!

[Fraulein]

This just in from an article on another thread: "'The right-wing media, the FBI, they are targeting our leadership,' Mr. Jesse Jackson said." What world do these folks live in?

[VoodooEconomist]

Big deal. Most of us already know how corrupt and elitist the media is.

Bill Press(titute) was on O'Reilly the other night and implied that the reason FoxNews is so successful is because it attracts a huge, untapped pool of intolerant people - implying that CNN attracts only the tolerant (presumably, the BlueZone voter). Can you get anymore elitist and condescending? What a pr**k!

The 60 Minutes Deception
An Exposé of Media Corruption
http://www.conservativebeacon.com/60_minutes_deception.html

If ever there was an example of liberal bias in the "mainstream" media, this is it. CBS' "60 Minutes" program and its host, Mike Wallace, engaged in dishonest tactics and the spreading of misinformation in what can only be regarded as efforts to remain faithful to the Clinton point of view.

While one bad apple shouldn't tarnish the entire news industry, this is but one of many examples of major news networks doing the bidding of the Clinton White House. It's hard not to be cynical that the entire "mainstream" media is hopelessly liberal, non-objective, biased, and corrupt.

CBS and Mike Wallace should be ashamed of themselves and the unprofessional shenanigans they resorted to in order to distort reality to conform to their pre-determined conclusions. Since watching this video, I have refused to watch anything on CBS. And I have lost any respect I might have had for Mike Wallace.

The rest @ http://www.conservativebeacon.com/60_minutes_deception.html.

[#3Fan]

LOL Good ones!

[L.N. Smithee]

I would assume Drudge does not approve of FreeRepublic.com check his links we are not one of them. Should we be giving him hits?

Of course. If it weren't for Drudge, FR might -- I said, "might" -- still be relatively unknown.

FR is the secret that net insiders don't like to talk about out loud because they think there is no such thing as bad publicity. Despite being one of the closest-knit web communities in existence as well as one of the stickiest sites on the net, FR's never been written up in Wired or most other major net publications, and have only been mentioned by Yahoo! Internet Life ONCE (in November issue about the web response to 9-11; the article was written by a contributor to Salon).

When given the opportunity to specifically name FR, writers and TV-Radio reporters will rarely say more than "a conservative website" or "an internet group." When the mainstream does mention FR, it's usually in a negative light -- much in the same way that Drudge is constantly referred to as "gossipmonger" and worse.

Drudge's complaints about FR were well-founded (racist postings -- most likely by disruptors -- on some 1999 Danny Williams threads. They were promptly deleted by JimRob, but the damage was done). I have my own complaints, but I air them rather than leaving in a huff.

IMHO, Drudge is the horse that brung us. He may not be a close friend, but he's on our side.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Really, I never heard that one. Of course it doesn't surprise me one bit.

[L.N. Smithee]

Big deal. Most of us already know how corrupt and elitist the media is.

It IS a big deal. Or don't you believe in sharing the truth with those whose minds might be changed?

[God'sgrrl]

I would assume Drudge does not approve of FreeRepublic.com check his links we are not one of them. Should we be giving him hits?

Why wouldn't Drudge approve of Free Republic?

[spycatcher]

Bernard Goldberg

Deb Weiss wrote this about him:

"...He's the veteran CBS reporter whose genial op-ed on press bias raised such a firestorm when it appeared in The Wall Street Journal, back in February of 1996.

Mr. Goldberg made the nearly-fatal mistake of attempting to think outside the media box. This is considered awfully bad form by professional journalists (just ask Michael Kelly), and Mr. Goldberg was forced to spend a season in Purgatory for his sins.

What, exactly, were those sins?

Deviationism, clearly: also wrongthink, revisionism, and false consciousness. Not to mention offering aid and comfort to the enemy.

In short, he was damned as a running dog of Republicanism and right-wing blight.

In a sharp, though affectionate, assessment of CBS 'reality-checker' Erik Engberg ("hold on!"), Mr. Goldberg wrote, bluntly, that the reason network newscasts were losing their audience was that "our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other 'media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters."

The wrath of his CBS colleagues was swift, and utterly predictable. "It's such a wacky charge...I don't know what Bernie was driving at. It just sounds bizarre," Bob Schieffer (for whom the only Good Republican is Senator John McCain) declared crisply.

"The test is not the names people call you or accusations by political activists inside or outside your own organization," huffed Democratic fundraiser Dan Rather. "The test is what goes up on the screen and what comes out of the speaker... I am not going to be cowed by anybody's special political agenda, inside, outside, upside, downside."

Well, hell, Dan. If you say so.

Especially that part about what goes up on the screen and what comes out of the speaker.

In the end, amidst a network-sanctioned smear campaign against Mr. Goldberg (championed, with malicious gusto, by Mr. Rather himself), CBS President Andrew Heyward took the apostate newsman off the air for two months and canceled his regular feature, "Bernard Goldberg's America."

Good to know that even CBS can draw the line, when it has to."

[freekitty]

Already ordered.

[WindMinstrel]

I always go to Best Book Buys -- it searches through various websites to find the best book deals.

http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/index.html

[dirtboy]

Next thing, they'll be telling us that Clinton was less than pure, and less than honest, and should have been removed from office.

Yeah, and when that happens I'll see pigs flying in formation like geese over my house.

[RightOnline]

"Next thing, they'll be telling us that Clinton was less than pure, and less than honest, and should have been removed from office."

If so, I'll dial up L.L. Bean and have a shipment of parkas sent to Hell 'cause they'll be needin' them.

[nicmarlo]

Goldberg is a traitor to what? certainly not journalism. He is a traitor to the charlatans who pose as jounalists...

Exactly! And you can add the "good ole boys club" to that list too.

[OrioleFan]

Amazing *** the effect of the Taliban soldiers switching sides *** has come to the Networks. First Jerry Rivers; now Bernard Goldberg. Who's next? Petah Jennings. Nawwwwwwwwww!!

[ThomasMore]

Talking about Bill Press the creep; someone actually had the gaul to agree with him...LOL

Bill Press Here

[spald]

Maybe General Electric (owner of NBC), Westinghouse (CBS) and Disney (ABC) WANT to expose these charletans for what they are.

And then save the $10MM (yes, ten million) each for Petah, Dan and Tom.

[BibChr]

That too! But I was even more coming from the "Great, breaking news, tell us something we didn't already know WHEN NOAH GOT OFF THE ARK!!"

Dan