Arrogance : rescuing America from the media elite / Bernard Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Bernard, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Objectivity.

Journalism.

Television broadcasting of news--United States.

Television broadcasting of news.

United States.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Warner Books, [2003]

Summary:

- Bernard Goldberg's previous book, "Bias (Regnery, 2001), was a #1 "New York Times bestseller and netted over 450,000 hardcover copies. The paperback edition, published by HarperPerennial in 1/03, has over 100,000 copies in print and has been a "New York Times bestseller for six weeks and counting.- Bernard Goldberg was a CBS correspondent for 28 years. He collected seven Emmy Awards and had a featured segment on the CBS Evening News entitled "Bernard Goldberg's America."- The success of Bernard Goldberg's "Bias, as well as Ann Coulter's "Stander (Crown, 6/02) and books by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh is a testament to readers' current fascination with the media's approach to covering the news.- The author's previous book resulted in appearances on over 400 radio programs and 40 cable TV shows, and interviews to the press in more than 10 countries.

Contents:

A (Very) Few Minutes with Andy Rooney 21

File It Under "H" 31

Mauling the Messenger 34

One Cheer for Honesty! 49

Root Causes 52

A Conversation with Tim Russert 78

Barbara Walters, Guardian of Standards 86

A (Black and White) Hollywood Ending 87

Pass the Mashed Potatoes, Please 100

What Liberal Media? 124

Who Stole Journalism? 127

And the Nobel Prize for Hillary-Gushing Goes To ... 146

Speaking of Sports and a Lot More with Bob Costas 152

Original Sin 165

And Now, the Rest of the Story ... 185

Actually, I Don't Have an Opinion on That 200

You Can't Make This Stuff Up 208

Welcome to the Gulag 209

That's Entertainment! 218

Liberal Bias? Never Mind! 221

Quagmire! 227

Twelve Steps 237

Step 1 Face Up to the Problem 238

Step 2 Lose the Enablers 241

Step 3 A Newsroom That Thinks Like America 248

Step 4 No More Balkans 252

Step 5 Teach the Children Well 254

Step 6 Stop Following the Leader 258

Step 7 Don't Stack the Deck 261

Step 8 Tell the Whole Story 266

Step 9 Don't Confuse Journalist with Activist 272

Step 10 Make Bias a Punishable Offense 276

Step 11 Expand Your Rolodex 280

Step 12 Stop Taking It Personally 295.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

044653191X

OCLC:

52257783