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BERNARD GOLDBERG
EMMY AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST
Bernard Goldberg, the television news reporter and author of Bias, a New York Times number one bestseller about how the media distorts the news, is widely seen as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. He has covered stories all over the world for CBS News and won six Emmy awards for his work at that network. His second book is Arrogance, another New York Times bestseller about the media. Goldberg’s third book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America—And Al Franken is #37, was released in May, 2005.
Goldberg now reports for the critically acclaimed HBO program Real Sports, hosted by Bryant Gumbel. In April 2001 Bernie won his seventh Emmy, this one for Outstanding Sports Journalism, for a Real Sports story entitled, “Dominican Free For All,” an investigative report on major league baseball recruiting in the Dominican Republic.
Bernie has reported extensively, both at HBO and at CBS News, on the transformation of the American culture. At HBO, in the Fall of 2000, he wrote the widely hailed documentary Do You Believe In Miracles, the dramatic story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team and the most famous hockey game ever—the one between the United States and the Soviet Union that revitalized the American spirit and helped bring America out of the malaise it had suffered for much of the 1970s, when gas lines were long, interest rates high, and Iranian radicals held Americans hostage in Tehran.
At CBS, he anchored two prime-time documentaries about how the American landscape was changing. Don’t Blame Me showed how the United States was becoming a nation of finger-pointers whose citizens more and more were refusing to accept responsibility for their actions. In Your Face, America was an hour-long report about the coarsening of America, about how vulgar and uncivil our popular culture was becoming.
Bernie has also written op-ed pieces, which were published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, about a wide array of subjects including baseball, manners, and journalism. In a 1993 TV Guide column, Harry Stein picked Goldberg (and nine others, including, Morley Safer, Bill Cosby and Garry Shandling) as one of the year’s most interesting people on television, citing his work “on the drift of American society.”
Today, Bernie lives in Miami with his wife, Nancy Solomon, and has two children, Brian and Catherine. He still works for HBO, occasionally writes a book, and is a frequent columnist providing Op-Ed’s for papers such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
