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Objective conservative is in existence simply to hypothesize views and opinions from the appropriate shimmering conservative, sometime broad-minded thought swayed by a belief that the United States of America is founded with a Judeo philosophy. It expresses the objective views of issues and candidates. The book “Bias” shows how the media distorts the news and argues how fairness, integrity and balance vanished in television. The book also insists on the importance the media plays in the USA. This report enlightens on how the book “Bias” shows and portrays the objective conservative opinion and explains them in detail.

The Plot of the Book

The book “Bias” written by Bernard Goldberg resulted from an incident that happened on 13th February. 1996. The Wall Street Journal published an editorial by Bernard Goldberg entitled “Networks Need a Reality Check”, for a fixture in CBS News (Goldberg, 2002). The agenda of the editorial was to enlighten the liberal biasness on the national television news along with the reporters that conflicted with their reporting strategies and policies.

The book “Bias” uncovers how the television network and other cables have failed in their mission by presenting the laissez-faire position on subjects as the baseline; of reasonableness and that any different point besides that is controversial. According to the writer, reasonable minds barely differ. The book tries to illuminate on how information show be presented. The writer through the book states that different ideas need be presented without unfavorably labeling one over the other while making the other look better.

Complaints to the networks editors and executives with no avail, the 28year long CBS news reporter went public through the publication of an Op Eds in the Wall Street Journal. His delusions of slanted news stories prompted his actions accusing the CBS for bias and copiously criticizing a story by Eric Engberg allegedly giving a “reality check” on the flat tax scheme of Steve Forbes. Despite the story’s qualification as “news”; the story faced all sorts of distortion, ranging from loaded words such as “scheme” and “elixir”, omission of people supporting the idea of Forbes, omission of association of “experts” contradicting the idea, and snide depiction( a “wacky” proposal as referenced by Engberg and that it should first be tried in Albania). Goldberg used this egregious sample as a commencing avenue to support and provide evidence of the larger charge of left-wing prejudice at the television networks, and provide an explanation why the big three TV networks continued to lose its viewers’ ( Goldberg, 2002) . “In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience”.

Goldberg who was considered as no one in the CBS television, achieved a national voice outside the world of media, to the few quiet voices that worked in the television that supported him, and all this was because of uttering the unutterable. His belief in pointing out slander, prejudice and distortion in the media led to a revolution such as the creation of talk shows on the radio, despite the fact that the media continues to refute.

The author of the book tries to show what the media tries to hide from the people of America when it distorts the news. The book analyzes how the press covers the race issue, the sexes relation, HIV & AIDS, the homeless peoples’ situation and finally, terrorism. This book is well documented and very honest in its portrayal of these issues. The author emphasizes and shows in this book how the media deliberately exaggerates the problems of the homeless people hiding it from the camera and while blaming it on the tax cuts by the republican. The actual agenda of the media was to hide the true reason of the actual homeless; the alcohol and drug addicted, mentally unstable weirdoes unable to perform even sufficient to earn housing; due to fear of the people of America seeing the culpability for the plight of the homeless people.

The author also tries to show the techniques and methods employed to implement a countrywide attack on the whole male gender, and the disastrous aftermath of that attack in California. The book finally shows how the news reporters, driven by a pledge to epitomize Israeli defense armies and Arab terrorists as morally comparable, hid the real nature of the Arabic world from Americans, in effect effecting the agenda of almost all the academic literati and ethically disarming the country- both afore and subsequent September 11.

This book “Bias” by Bernard Goldberg was well written and very informative. The writer of this book bases his argument entirely on facts and barely opinions. He unveils how the media distorts information simply because it aims and intends to hide the truth from the people. “The fact is television doesn’t simply reflect society’s values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it has made even the most dubious “values” and behaviors seem normal and routine.” It bases explanations of occurrences on a different matter to the real deal. The media tries to blame the tax cuts by the republicans for the homeless Americans on the streets. The facts in this book are well researched and precisely documented to provide well catalogued information.

The author of the book bases his facts on real life issues that he has experienced and has substantial evidence on. Through the book, the author tries to portray how the media distorts information through all means like slander and exaggeration “… Bob Schieffer, the network’s chief Washington correspondent, told The Washington Post: “Bernie just seemed to be upset about everything. He was upset with the world.””(Goldberg, 2002). The reasons for these are because the most media institutions are owned by rich people and politician who control the country and are afraid of the truth getting out to citizens. It is plain and simple; media is power. Whoever controls the media owns the power. The most powerful politicians and rich men are able to control the country by dictating what the media broadcasts. The people of the country judge others basing on the information they access from the media, knowing that they rely and believe in the news from the media.

In other areas, journalists control the mind of the Americans by providing information about the Israeli and Arabs, that they want Americans to access. Information portraying how the Americans are harassing the Arabs and Israeli has consequently led to the disarming of the American armies. The truth about the Israeli and Arabs is however concealed. This is because these journalists have sworn to humanitarianism blindfolded by their belief of “controlling Americans” to see the plain truth.

The obsessed news man spent most of his trying to find a way to expose the media’s unreliability in relaying information. After numerous attempts failed attempts to persuade the editors and news executives of the media houses, he decided to find a way to expose the media’s capriciousness of tampering with information by publishing a controversial article on the journal of Wall Street. This journal attracted attention all over the country and pasting his name wrongly to the CBS news, while emerging as a vocal hero to the civilians and other members of the CBS news who felt in accordance (Goldberg, 2002).

In conclusion, the book “Bias” by Bernard Goldberg solely intends to enlighten the people of America of the sins the media is committing. The book also aims at exposing the media in its unending quest to hide information from the American citizens with reasons of doing damage control, hiding the guilty and protecting the innocent. This book makes a great discovery of the crimes the media commit and openly points them out. The book is a representation of a hero engaging in a difficult stuff that is voicing very many quiet individuals. This book is a masterpiece that utters of the reality without hesitance of the reaction of the media and critics.

Reference

Goldberg, Bernard. 2002. Bias: a CBS insider exposes how the media distort the news. Washington, DC: Regnery Publ.