Eric Jon Engberg (September 18, 1941 – March 27, 2016) was an American

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who worked for CBS News from 1976 to 2003.

Life

Engberg attended Highland Park High School (Class of 1959) in Highland Park, Illinois. He graduated from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

School of Journalism. He worked at WTOP-TV;

WTOP-FM WTOP-FM (103.5 FM) – branded ''WTOP Radio'' and ''WTOP News'' – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station serves the Washington metropolitan area, extending its ...

; WTOP-AM from 1968 to 1972, then moved to Group W from 1972 until he joined CBS in 1976.

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listed, as a central example of media bias, an Engberg

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''Reality Check'' segment that ridiculed the flat tax proposal of

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. Goldberg leveled this charge in his book, '' Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News'', and elsewhere. Engberg wrote disparagingly of the candidates' performance in the

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presidential debates. He cautioned that anonymous sources are often misleading. Engberg died at his home in

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, on March 27, 2016.

Awards

During his career Engberg received several awards for his reporting, including 1998

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award, and 1999

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silver baton award.

References

External links

Eric Engberg website
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"Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism"
''CBS News'', Dick Meyer, November 8, 2004

''CBS News'', Vaughn Ververs, November 11, 2005

Entertainment Weekly'', Tim Appelo, March 23, 1990 {{DEFAULTSORT:Engberg, Eric 1941 births 2016 deaths Missouri School of Journalism alumni CBS News people People from Palmetto, Florida People from Highland Park, Illinois People from Bethesda, Maryland