Eric Engberg
Eric Jon Engberg was an American correspondent who worked for CBS News from 1976 to 2003.
Life
Engberg attended Highland [Park High School |Highland Park High School] in Highland Park, Illinois.He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
He worked at WTOP-TV; WTOP-FM; WTOP from 1968 to 1972, then moved to Group W from 1972 until he joined CBS in 1976.
Bernard Goldberg listed, as a central example of media bias, an Engberg CBS Evening News Reality Check segment that ridiculed the flat tax proposal of Steve Forbes. 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 U.S. [presidential election, 2000|2000] presidential debates. He cautioned that anonymous sources are often misleading.
Engberg died at his home in Palmetto, Florida, on March 27, 2016.