CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg Looks to MassNews for Inspiration in New Book about Media Bias
By MassNews Staff
Thursday. August 4, 2005
This is Part I of a three part analysis of Bernard Goldberg's Book "100 People who are Screwing Up America".  

       CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg is looking to MassNews for inspiration in his new book about media bias, which he has named: “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.”
       Goldberg’s first book in 2002 was also about “media bias”, but it was concerned only with bias that was exhibited by television newsmen like Goldberg. Both books shot immediately to the No. 1 spot on the New York Times list as the top-selling book across the country.
       The new book is obviously inspired by MassNews inasmuch as almost all of Goldberg’s ten “most dangerous people in the nation” have been targeted for years by MassNews. Our role has been to blaze a path and make it “okay” for Goldberg and other more moderate liberals to examine and criticize many heroes of the American left.
       The only deviation we have made from Goldberg’s newest book is to eliminate from our discussion his #1 pick, Michael Moore, because MassNews obviously has no connection with Moore (about whom Goldberg printed only a picture and no text) and former President Jimmy Carter, #6.

The “Most Dangerous” Person in America, According to Bernard Goldberg --- Pinch Sulzberger
       The “most dangerous” person in America (after Michael Moore) is the owner of the New York Times, Pinch Sulzberger.
       Just think about that!
       When Atty. Pawlick first challenged the New York Times/Boston Globe conglomerate back in 1999 and then intensified his challenges in 2001 after the conglomerate libeled Pawlick’s wife 16 times, Pawlick had never even heard of Pinch Sulzberger (who inherited the paper in 1997) nor had most Americans.
       But now at places like the nationwide Fox News channel, there is a constant drumbeat to expose the New York Times. You don’t hear much about Pinch yet. But you will as Pawlick’s promotion of his book, “Libel by New York Times” continues to build across the nation.
       Even fewer had heard of Publisher/Atty. Pawlick. But the lawyers in his home state of Massachusetts revered his newspaper, Lawyers Weekly, which Pawlick founded in 1972 in his rented home in Weston where he lived with his four children (and no nannies). What a contrast with the inherited wealth of the Sulzbergers. Despite this contrast, Pawlick had the courage after 25 years of being a Publisher/Attorney to challenge the largest, most-famous paper in the world! By that time, Lawyers Weekly had 40 lawyers, 20 writers, 40 in sales and 20 others working in seven states, and was the acknowledged leader in the country for newspapers for lawyers.

SJC Chief Justice Margaret Marshall Is Also “Dangerous”
       It would be impossible to also write about Judge Marshall without using Atty. Pawlick as a source. Every aspect of Judge Marshall’s illegal, immoral and unethical conduct has been revealed by Pawlick. He personally warned Judge Marshall, with the entire Court watching, that if she went ahead and broke the law, she would regret it.
       “There is going to be a seismic revolution that will forever have a tremendous effect upon the politics of this state,” Atty. Pawlick warned her, face-to-face, in May 2003.
       He suggested that Marshall consider the fate of the Democratic candidates for Governor in 2002, both of whom had lost the Governor’s race to Republican Mitt Romney because both were on record as favoring homosexual rights.
       “I will ask you,” Pawlick challenged Justice Marshall, “to consider that Senator Birmingham and Shannon O'Brien both went down to defeat because they opposed the Protection of Marriage Amendment and I would hate to see this Court get a stain on its face by doing the same -- making the same mistake.  So I would ask you to consider that, and you and we both want what the people want. But we don't know what the people want [because they have not been allowed to vote as required by the state Constitution]. ***
            “We just ask that you -- hope and pray that you consider this very carefully, and the Goodridge case [where the Court imposed homosexual marriage in November 2003], before forcing us, all of us, into Federal Court. Thank you for your time.”

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