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In 2001 Bernard Goldberg released his book “Bias A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.” In it Goldberg voices his accounts at CBS where he worked as a reporter and a producer for nearly thirty years. He discusses how liberal bias influences the mainstream media. He tells us how he comes to this opinion and how he attempted to bring this to the attention of the network executives. When he comes to the conclusion that no one will listen or do anything about the problem he decides to blow the whistle on his own company and the mainstream press in a Wall Street Journal piece. I chose this topic because I thought that liberal bias in the mainstream media existed but never really did any research. After much research I found that this situation of liberal bias in the news is much worse than I had thought. Lets start out with the definition of bias. The American Heritage College dictionary says that bias is a preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment or to influence in a particular, typically unfair direction; prejudice. Now lets take a look at journalism. I went to the Society of Professional Journalists web site at https://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp, to see wha