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| | Bookreporter.com - BIAS by Bernard Goldberg |
 | | Goldberg's position and the ultimate premise behind BIAS is that network news has failed in its mission by presenting the liberal position on issues as the baseline, if you will, of reasonableness and that any variation from that position is controversial or a deviation from how things should be. |
 | | Goldberg's observation, both at the time he wrote his initial editorial and now, is that differing viewpoints should be presented without disparagingly labeling one and giving the other, more favored, viewpoint a pass. |
 | | The meat of BIAS is where Goldberg systematically illustrates how, when dealing with the major issues of our time such as homelessness, the Middle East, racism, AIDS and abortion, the networks have systematically favored one view to the exclusion of the other and have knowingly distorted the facts in order to do so. |
| www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0060520841.asp (758 words) |
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