Bias

Title : Bias – A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

Writer: Bernard Goldberg

Year : 2001

Language : English

It is a very nature of people to red many books which provide them with everything that they like or are interested in. So do I. I find that I’m fix to media and journalism until I decided to arrange my undergradute thesis on American Media. And, since my main focus right now is, of course, American Media, I’m dying and trying so hard to find and read many books and journals about American Media. This book, which I accidentally found in my department’s library, is definitely one of those many books I chose to read.

Bernard Goldberg was actually a news correspondent in CBS TV channel, one of the biggest TV channels in America. After years working for that big media corporation, he found that American media was not truly objective. They slanted news they broadcasted to people by viewing the news using their own perspective, or simply, American media was actually truly subjective. They did not (and perhaps still do not) deliver news as it is, but deliver it and put their own perspective on it that it the became bias. They made people believe what they believe, not what people really should believe. Particularly, the bais here was a liberal bias, in which all news were slanted by the pespective of liberal people, who were obviously, the news people themselves.

The book ran very well at first, I must admit that I do agree in the bias on news since it doesn’t happen only in America, but also in everywhere else, including in my country. But then the book (for me personally) suddenly became a propaganda. Well, precisely, a hidden propaganda. Almost from the middle to 3/4 of the book, the writer (Bernard Goldberg himself, of course blamed the media for helping feminism growing up there in America, and then he blamed American career women for bad development of American children. Well, for me, education and development of children (American, English, Chinese, Japanese, whatsoever) depend on both fathers and mothers, not only the mothers. A family is a team, all members of the family should work together to build the family, especially their children. So, even though fathers are the breadwinners going work outside, they also have the role to comfort their children and make them happy.

The second point thaat I don’t like from the book is the point about 9/11 tragedy. i know that many Arabs people out there hte Israelis so much that then they also put their hatred on America. But that’s not the exact bacground of 9/11. If the writer want to open his eyes more widely and search more, then he probably will find the treu conspiracy, or say…background, of the 9/11 tragedy.

At first, I felt a deep sympathy to the wroter for what had happened to him. But then… I just felt that this book is just about his anger and revenge that there was no one listened to him about the truth of media bias he put forward. I do agree with his finding of the media bias, but I do not agree very hard with his conservative ideas. Well, if he denied that he’s not a conservative, for me (again), he’s just simply conservative, and not liberal at all.

Rating : 3