Bernard Goldberg

Bernard Goldberg is a 72 year old American journalist, author, and political commentator. In the early 1970s, Goldberg worked as a producer and reporter for CBS news. In 2001, Goldberg released his first book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, which became the number one New York Times bestseller. In addition to Bias, he has also written four other books- Arrogance, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, and A slobbering Love Affair. Goldberg’s outstanding journalism has earned him the title as the winner of fourteen Emmy Awards.

Now a days people run to media for answers on current events and expect information to be accurate, but yet do the people know that almost all media news reports are bias. Often times people run to news channels that give out information they want to hear based off the media’s beliefs. The media has always been bias, but it wasn’t until certain events occurred that opened society’s eyes. There are six powerhouse news sources that all have their own type of bias which points out their own perspective on current events. When it comes to current events, different media platforms represent the story from different perspectives. Viewers want their views to be validated rather than challenged and don’t give ideas of what people should do. Although

Jonah Jacob Goldberg, currently 47 years of age, was born on March 21st, 1969. Goldberg was born in Manhattan, New York. He is mostly known for being a senior editor, author, and columnist. Goldberg attended Goucher College in 1991 and received an “Alma Mater” (Article Bio). While he spent his years at Goucher, Goldberg was a part of the school newspaper, acting as the co-editor of the program. After his graduation, he became a part of the National Review and is now currently the senior editor. Jonah Goldberg has written columns previously for “The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, The New York Post, and Slate,” and also writes for the Los Angeles Times on a weekly

These stories become the shadows on the wall that are cast by the flame, and the media has become the fire that projects the shadows on the wall. How do we know the story's we read or see are real? We do not always get the full story which causes people to believe and fear the world based on these stories. For example, after the devastating attacks 9/11, people seem to have a stereotypical insight on Muslims, assuming they we all terrorist. This is because we all were exposed to what the media told us. We catch ourselves being bias and stereotyping the world based on what we know through what we are being told. In reality, 9/11 was devastating, but not all Muslims are the same. The exposure to media has come a long way since 9/11. Therefore, our minds are being exposed to more insight on how people and the world

The media controls the way the public views a controversial event. It can create the illusion that everything is perfect by leaving out important information, or can reveal the deplorable truth as the media did during the Civil Rights Movement. It was not always that way though, during the Colonial Era the media glossed over the brutality African Americans

In the recent years there has been an increase in the number of terrorist attacks and groups such as 9-11, Paris, and Isis . As these attacks get more and more frequent and so does the amount of media that covers them. When the media reports about these events they can spread untrue, misleading or misunderstood information. This kind of spread can get cause stereotypes among the American people.

The mass media affects the spread of propaganda and just encourages group and individual terrorist acts. In a way the media is an ally to terrorists. The media use terrorists to get stories and terrorists use the media to spread fear and panic. The media legitimizes terrorism and their causes because by publicizing their acts, even if not completely true, it will be believed. People say don’t believe everything you hear and read, but once its put out there, the propaganda is already set in our heads.

The news report I selected was produced by Michael Pearson, who is not an expert on the Middle East. When I searched to find out more about Mr. Pearson I found out the fact that he was only a part time journalist for CNN and his main career is photography. Additionally most of the articles I discovered that Michael Pearson authored did not pertain to what is happening in the Middle East but was about the Ferguson case and a story about a Batman related shooting. This persuades me to believe that Mr. Pearson does not have all the facts in this area since he has no other articles dealing with the Middle East. The author of the article should not be trustworthy since Michael Pearson does not have a solid foundation for what is truly happening.

This short story was based on a young, Bernard Cooper, he was in his high school Algebra class when a girl named Theresa decided to ask him if he was a "fag". Bernard had no clue of what a "fag" was until he found the definition. When he was invited to his first kissing party he started to realize that he wasn’t into girls. Bernard was told by Grady that if a boy is asked to look at his hands and he looks at them "manly" he wasn’t a Homosexual, which was obviously not a true statement. I believe Theresa was an important character because she was the first person to utter that Bernard was attracted to men, she was a ninth-grade girl who knew about things she shouldn’t have and repeated them to other kids, such as Bernard. Another important character

How the has media poisoned peoples’ brains to think like this. Media has created this mental construct, in which all Muslims are the “bad guys”. Media plays a big role in a lot of different situations. Media mostly portrays African American as “thugs, and drug dealers”, media portrays Latinos as all being “illegal”. Media plays an essential role in the development of the young children, who’s brains are still developing. It really affects their world view.

The press has presented Islam within a certain emotional frame, and it has made the violence in the Middle East seem like the main interaction between the West and Middle East.

With the bad reputation of Islam; I mean the terrorism carried out by Muslims because of the 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the Boston bombing, and even after San Bernardino or Orlando, peoples don't make the distinction between Islam, the religion, and Islamism, the political ideology that societies should be politically organized according to Islamic doctrine and law. Therefore many Muslim people feel personally attacked because Islam is seen as inferior to the West. It is seen as barbaric, irrational, and primitive. It is seen as violent, aggressive, threatening, supportive of terrorism, and engaged in a clash of civilizations.In fact  Muslims consider Quran to be the unaltered and final revelation of God, and knowing that Islam is an Abrahamic religion that honors prophets like Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Mary is also an important figure in Islam, and there is an entire chapter bears her name—Surat Maryam.

“If the media were not there to report terrorist acts and to explain their political and social significance...terrorism as such would cease to exist” said John O'Sullivan, an editor of the Times of London.1 This is also the way many other people feel about the recent increase in terrorist activity; they feel that the media is causing it. The media is doing this by fulfilling the terrorists' need for publicity.2 Terrorists need media publicity in order to get their views spread to the public.3 Because of this need for publicity, terrorists are committing their acts of terrorism in areas where a lot of publicity will be gained; the United States and Western Europe are the most recent targets. The bombings of the federal building in

After 9/11 has induced negative attitudes towards Muslim peoples who tend to be strongly associated with any act of terrorism. The media has played a colossal role in developing such negative association wherein it constantly portrays Muslim people in combination with violent terrorist acts. It does so in a way that they both go hand-and-hand. In other words, it has made it as though the Islamic religion is synonymous with terrorism. The media has perpetuated Muslim stereotypes over the years that followed the 9/11 incident. Because of this, society has developed, and still has developed, this prejudiced mindset about the Islamic religion and the Muslim communities around the world. People immediately assume that any violent act being

"The US media has been clubbing together terrorism and Islam, influencing the American public to think that all Arab Muslims are "crazy and violent terrorists"… The American media has been a primary agent responsible for creating racist stereotypes, images and