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Bernard Goldberg (born 1945) is a writer and a political commentator for Fox News. For nearly thirty years, he was with CBS; his reporting won multiple Emmy Awards.

In 1996, Goldberg wrote an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal, accusing network news operations of harboring liberal bias. The editorial resulted in Goldberg's ostracism from CBS.^[1] In 2001, his first book Bias was published and became a number one New York Times bestseller. Goldberg followed Bias with two more national bestsellers—Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite and 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.

Goldberg believes that there is a liberal bias which is often not conscious. He has encountered resistance to the idea, and his methods.

Contents 1 Criticism 2 Awards 3 Quotations 4 Books 5 References 6 External links

Goldberg has received criticism for his research and claims. On an episode of the Phil Donahue talk show, Al Franken challenged Goldberg's claim in Bias that a 1991 John Chancellor quote about the Soviet Union was "liberal hate speech".^[2]

Goldberg has won eight Emmys for excellence in journalism and is a correspondent on the HBO Sports magazine, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. In 2006 he won the most prestigious award in broadcast journalism, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, 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.^[3]

• "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."^[4][5]
• "It doesn't happen that way." - Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.^[6]
• "They're responsible for the problem [of cultural meanness]." - Referring to residents of both U.S. coasts.^[7].
• "I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys."^[8]
• "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.^{[citation needed]}

• 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

1. ^ Bias Review Bookreporter.com. Joe Hartlaub, 1996]
2. ^ Transcript MSNBC Donahue Show January 6, 2003
3. ^ Realsports Awards HBO.com. December 14 2005.
4. ^ The Bernard Goldberg Interview RightWingNews.com John Hawkins, 2001.
5. ^ Today's 'Liberals': Close-Minded, Nasty and Fringe Newsmax.com. Bernard Goldberg, October 16, 2003
6. ^ Goldberg Predicts Collapse of Liberal Media Newsmax.com. Phil Brennan, April 11, 2003.
7. ^ Bernard Goldberg: Coastal residents "responsible for the problem" of vulgarity; transcript of NBC Today Show, August 11, 2005.
8. ^ Everyone Loves a List Newsweek. Carl Sullivan, July 30, 2005

• Bernard Goldberg Official Website
• Goldberg Variations: Evil genius or useful idiot? We report, you decide, Michael Kinsley, Slate.com, Jan. 10, 2002.
• Chapter excerpts and essay by Bernard Goldberg about Bias Publisher official Goldberg web site.