Eric Engberg

{{short description|American broadcast journalist (1941-2016)}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Eric Engberg | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Eric Jon Engberg | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1941|09|18}} | birth_place = Highland Park, Illinois | disappeared_date =  | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|03|27|1941|09|18}} | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = *West Ridge grade school, Highland Park, IL<ref>{{cite web |title=DOUGLAS HENKLE, Highland Park, IL Illinois currently in Oshkosh, WI USA |publisher=Highland Park HS class of 1959 |url=http://www.hphs1959.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=806966 |access-date=2012-02-10 }} photos of Engberg at West Ridge 6th grade in 1953, and at 2009 reunion </ref> *Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois), 1959 *University of Missouri School of Journalism, B.J. 1963<ref name=UM_almnus_page>{{cite web |title=Eric Engberg |authorlink=Eric Engberg |first=Eric |last=Engberg |location=Columbia, Missouri |date=November 4, 2011 |publisher=Missouri School of Journalism |url=http://journalism.missouri.edu/alum/eric-engberg/ |access-date=2012-02-10 }}</ref> | occupation = broadcast journalist | years_active = | employer = * 1963–1968 KFRU, Columbia, Missouri * 1968–1969 WTOP-FM-TV, Washington, D.C. * April 1969– WMAL-AM-FM, Washington * 1972– Group-W * Feb 17, 1976– CBS News, New York, Dallas * 1981–2002 CBS News, Washington<ref name=CBSnews2005/> | agent = | known_for = * Bernard Goldberg's book ''Bias'' listed Engberg's reportage as media bias<ref name=Goldberg1996>{{cite news |authorlink=Bernard Goldberg |first=Bernard |last=Goldberg |date=January 2, 2002 |title=Networks Need a Reality Check: A firsthand account of liberal bias at CBS News |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122669696168929319 |access-date=2012-02-10 |quote=Which brings us to a recent "Reality Check" on the "CBS Evening News," reported by Eric Engberg, a longtime friend. His subject was Steve Forbes's flat tax. It's not just Democrats and some Republican presidential candidates who don't like the flat tax--it's also a lot of big-time reporters. The flat tax rubs them the wrong way. Which is fair enough--until their bias makes its way into their reporting. And Mr. Engberg's report set new standards for bias. |work=The Wall Street Journal }}</ref> * breaking Spiro T. Agnew's plea agreement (1973) * "Reality Check" segment on the CBS Evening News ~1992–~2002<ref>{{cite web |title=(blurb re CBS evening news) |url=https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sable/research/newsblaster_articles/www.cbsnews.com.897_42.txt |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121214161041/http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sable/research/newsblaster_articles/www.cbsnews.com.897_42.txt |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-14 |access-date=2012-02-10 |quote="Reality Check," Correspondent Eric Engberg 's reports that get beyond the conventional wisdom to what is really happening behind the hype and the headlines. }}</ref> * 1998 forcing identification of Vietnam War's Unknown Soldier | notable_works = | style = | net_worth =  | height =  | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charge =  | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = Judith Ann Klein Engberg<ref name=UM_almnus_page/><ref name=BYC_Feb2012>{{cite news |title=Communications |work=Poop Deck, The Monthly Newsletter |publisher=Bradenton Yacht Club |location=Bradenton, Florida |date=February 2012 |access-date=2012-02-10 |url=http://www.bradentonyachtclub.com/About-Us/PoopDeck-Newsletter/2012-PoopDecks/February-2012-with-Great-Mates-Adsv2.aspx |quote=Both Judy and Eric Engberg are retiring from the Poopdeck as editor and photo department. They hope to spend more time on their Grand Banks 36’ Copycat and with their grandchildren. Judy has been putting the Poopdeck together -- writing, editing, cropping, and the dozens of things that make it work -- under the watch of eight Commodores. Judy and Eric met at and graduated from the famed University of Missouri School of Journalism (1962) and married shortly thereafter. Judy became a working reporter and editor while Eric went toward TV and eventually became a national news and political correspondent for CBS Evening News. Judy focused on raising their three sons while Eric went to the hotspots of the world. Upon retirement, they moved from Bethesda, MD to Bradenton and became members of BYC in 2002}}</ref> | partner = | children = three sons<ref name=BYC_Feb2012/> *Eric Robin Engberg *Jason Evans Engberg *Mark A Engberg<ref>{{cite web |title=Here Are Your Results! - PeopleSmart |url=http://www.peoplesmart.com/psp.aspx?_act=resultsgo&search=name&firstName=Judith&middleName=Ann&lastName=Engberg&age=71&ZIPCode=34221-9764&city=Palmetto&state=FL&tid=PeoplePageWidgetH150&aff=66 |access-date=2012-02-10 }}</ref> | parents = | relatives = | callsign = | awards = '''Sigma Delta Chi awards''' *1973? radio spot news reporting<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography - Eric Engberg |url=http://ericengberg.com/biography.html |access-date=2012-02-10 |publisher=EJE Productions |year=2008 |archive-date=2012-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218085911/http://www.ericengberg.com/biography.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *1998 television investigative journalism<ref>{{cite book |title=Sigma Delta Chi 1998 Awards, Profiles in Excellence |chapter=Television investigative reporting - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |date=June 1999 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |pages=36–37 |access-date=2012-02-10 |url=http://www.spj.org/pdf/1998-sdx-award-winners.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015082355/http://www.spj.org/pdf/1998-sdx-award-winners.pdf |archive-date=2009-10-15 }} Eric Engberg, Vince Gonzales, Dick Meyer at CBS News </ref> '''Investigative Reporters and Editors''' *1998 for Tomb of the Unknowns<ref name=Investigative>{{cite web |title=Tomb of the Unknowns |url=http://www.ire.org/search/?q=eric+engberg |access-date=2012-02-10 |quote=This series of stories dealt with the identify of the American serviceman buried as the Vietnam Unknown in 1984. CBS News found (and reported) that he had an identity and that it was known to many in the military before the remains were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Using the Freedom of Information Act and record searches ... (CBS News) found that the Unknown was most certainly Air Force Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie and that certain military officials kept that fact secret. ... The Pentagon took the unprecedented step of ordering the Tomb opened and the remains subjected to DNA testing. The tests proved it was Blassie and he was ultimately buried under a stone bearing his own name in Veterans cemetery outside St. Louis. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623175730/http://www.ire.org/search/?q=eric+engberg |archive-date=2017-06-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | website = {{URL|www.ericengberg.com}} | footnotes = }} '''Eric Jon Engberg''' (September 18, 1941 – March 27, 2016) was an American correspondent who worked for CBS News from 1976 to 2003.

==Life== Engberg attended Highland Park High School (Class of 1959) in Highland Park, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Addison |url=http://www.hphs1959.com/ |title=Highland Park High School Class Of 1959, Highland Park, IL |publisher=Hphs1959.com |date= |access-date=2010-08-17}}</ref> He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/nprexel/confrmspk2.htm |title=Government & Media: Perception & Reality Confirmed Speakers |publisher=Govinfo.library.unt.edu |date= |access-date=2010-08-17}}</ref>

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.<ref name=Goldberg1996/><ref>{{cite news |title=Tackling Bias: A news veteran reviews Bernard Goldberg's Bias |authorlink=Lou Cannon |first=Lou |last=Cannon |date=January 26–27, 2002 |work=National Review Online |access-date=2012-02-10 |url=http://old.nationalreview.com/weekend/books/books-cannon012602.shtml }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} review of Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, by Bernard Goldberg</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200112/ai_n9015166 | work=Human Events | title=Bernard Goldberg exposes a vindictive, biased media | year=2001}}</ref>

Engberg wrote disparagingly of the candidates' performance in the 2000 presidential debates.<ref>{{cite news |title = Pablum Hits The Fan |authorlink = Eric Engberg |first = Eric |last = Engberg |location = Washington, D.C. |date = Oct 17, 2000 |work = CBS news |url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pablum-hits-the-fan/ |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130118225526/http://election.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/18/politics/main242074.shtml |url-status = live |archive-date = January 18, 2013 |access-date = 2012-02-10 }}</ref> He cautioned that anonymous sources are often misleading.<ref name=CBSnews2005>{{cite news |work=Public Eye by Vaughn Ververs |title=Outside Voices: Eric Engberg Calls For A Time Out On Anonymous Sources |authorlink=Eric Engberg |first=Eric |last=Engberg |location= |date=November 11, 2005 |publisher=CBS news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/outside-voices-eric-engberg-calls-for-a-time-out-on-anonymous-sources/ |access-date=2012-02-10 }}</ref>

Engberg died at his home in Palmetto, Florida, on March 27, 2016.<ref>CBS Evening News, March 28, 2016</ref>

==Awards== During his career Engberg received several awards for his reporting, including 1973’s Sigma Delta Chi distinguished service award in Radio Reporting and 1998 Investigative Reporters and Editors award,<ref name=Investigative/> and 1999 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award silver baton award.<ref>{{cite web|title=1999 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards |url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/412-past-dupont-award-winners/166 |access-date=22 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222212755/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/412-past-dupont-award-winners/166 |archive-date=22 February 2012 }}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.ericengberg.com/index.html Eric Engberg website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710195439/http://www.ericengberg.com/index.html |date=2011-07-10 }} *{{imdb name|2892314|Eric Engberg}} *[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blogging-as-typing-not-journalism/ "Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism"], ''CBS News'', Dick Meyer, November 8, 2004 *[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/outside-voices-eric-engberg-calls-for-a-time-out-on-anonymous-sources/ "Outside Voices: Eric Engberg Calls For A Time Out On Anonymous Sources"], ''CBS News'', Vaughn Ververs, November 11, 2005 *[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316978,00.html "48 Hours with "48 Hours""] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221041021/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316978,00.html |date=2009-12-21 }}, ''Entertainment Weekly'', Tim Appelo, March 23, 1990

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