Bias (book)

Bias is a book by Bernard Goldberg, a CBS feature reporter who published an example of liberal bias in an op-ed piece. He was then taken off the air.

In a February 1996 op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal Mr. Goldberg wrote: "There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I’m more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don’t trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other ‘media elites’ have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it’s hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don’t sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we’re going to slant the news. We don’t have to. It comes naturally to most reporters."

In his book, Goldberg says that U.S. liberals are so biased that they don't even realize sometimes that other people might disagree. He gives the example of a female journalist who couldn't understand how Ronald Reagan was elected. "Nobody I know voted for him."