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An update. For the June 12 Wall Street Journal, Bernard Goldberg penned a column about Andy Rooney's admission, on the June 5 Larry King Live on CNN, that the networks do have a liberal bias. As recounted in the June 7 CyberAlert, Rooney conceded that Bernard Goldberg is on target about liberal media bias. “I thought he made some very good points,” Rooney told King. Rooney admitted he has “a liberal bias” since “I'm consistently liberal in my opinions,” adding that he considers Dan Rather to be “transparently liberal.” For more:
mediaresearch.org
The June 12 Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed by Goldberg, titled: "Ever Notice Liberal Bias?"
Goldberg recalled that Rooney was talking about "the same Dan Rather who was all over me like a hound on a hare, as he might put it, when I wrote in 1996, on this very page, that '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.' I was a correspondent at CBS News at the time and the op-ed started the TV version of World War III. I was taken off the air for several months; there was even talk that CBS News might fire me for uttering such blasphemy.
"Several of my colleagues went public with their displeasure. Bob Schieffer told the Washington Post that for me to say there was liberal bias at the networks was 'a wacky charge.' Andrew Heyward, the President of CBS News, also spoke to the Post, calling me a 'misguided missile.'
"But now we have Andy Rooney, a very big name in the world of television news, publicly saying that Bias was filled with 'some very true things' -- and it's like a tree falling in the forest. The silence, as they say, is deafening. Here's Mr. Rooney saying what right-wingers have been yelling about for years -- that Dan Rather is 'transparently liberal' (even I never said that!) -- and not a peep outside the Internet."
To read's Goldberg's op-ed piece in full:
online.wsj.com
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