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Summary Of Bias By Bernard Goldberg

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The book Bias written by Bernard Goldberg explains how the liberal media distorts actual news and as a result impacts society negatively. Goldberg joined CBS News in 1972 and retired 28 years later, in 2000. Goldberg describes the distortion in present day due to no diversity of opinion in the newsroom, so no matter how many news executives go on about diversity, about ethnic, and racial diversity and how much they say we need that to go out the full story about things, they don’t seem to care much about intellectual diversity or diversity of opinions. This is why journalist can bash on a certain side or cheer the other side and wont fear about what will happen. Goldberg views Conservative news as evil and liberal media as right. One of the examples Goldberg uses in his book to show Media Bias is with Homelessness in chapter 5. He points out how the homeless shown on the nightly news shows were "sympathetic souls... temporarily down on their luck," whereas the homeless Goldberg saw on the sidewalks were "by and large, winos or drug addicts or schizophrenics" who "mumbled crazy things." He says the media "had to exaggerate reality if we were really going to gain support and compassion for the homeless." Goldberg …show more content…

Media that could reflect the real America should be based on diversity of views, pluralism of opinion as the American society. First of all, when someone provides the truth of the actual situation, that person is automatically called a “whistle blower”. There are not many of those people, which are willing to expose all secrets that would benefit the society by finding out the actual story. As Goldberg elaborates in his insider book, danger is a big risk factor to them, losing a job for example, takes a lot of courage or foolishness to do that. Goldberg states that it should be normal common sense for the media give accurate information, which surprisingly does not happened in

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