How Fox Host, O'Reilly, Used Raw Corporate Power, To Crush a Critic

[Stuart G]

From..Huffington Post, Columbia Journalism Review

The O’Reilly Factor
How the Fox host used raw corporate power to crush a critic
Aug 16, 2010

By Terry Ann Knopf




http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_oreilly_factor.php


Whenever they say ‘it’s not about the money,’ it is about the money.”
- Fred W. Friendly

It was a balmy Saturday––a perfect night for champagne toasts. Some 450 people from the local television industry gathered in the Grand Ballroom at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, many of the men in tuxedos, the women in strapless gowns. The occasion was a dinner ceremony on May 10, 2008, to announce the local Emmy-award winners. Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray was on hand, as were bigwigs from the Boston/New England chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The evening’s highlight was to be the presentation of the prestigious Governors’ Award to Bill O’Reilly, the host of Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor. The award, voted on each year by a local board of NATAS governors, recognizes achievements in the television industry and is typically given to individuals with roots in the New England area. According to Timothy Egan, then the president of the academy’s local chapter, “Bill O’Reilly was selected because he hosted the top-rated talk show on cable seven years running. He worked at TV stations in Hartford and two in Boston. He wrote for The Boston Phoenix. And he holds master’s degrees from Boston University one from Kennedy School of Government. He is someone who understands New England’s journalism industry and honed his skills here.”

To some participants, though, O’Reilly was an odd choice. For all his success as a media superstar—cable TV host, newspaper columnist, and best-selling author—O’Reilly has long been dogged by critics turned off less by his conservative politics than his inflammatory rhetoric and bullying tactics._

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It is a good read, and shows what a real asshole and scumbag O'Reilly is..worth it..

[MajorChode]

1. It's a good read all the way through, but especially the last paragraph

But he is still in a fighting mood. “I don’t think they had the F-ing right to tell me what I’m allowed to say. In the end, I think they were trying to suck up to Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch and Bill O’Reilly in a way that’s spineless and appalling for a company that aspires to run a major network news operation . What happens when Keith Olbermann goes after O’Reilly? I think that’s scary.”

I'm not sure when Barry Nolan said that, but if it was a couple of years ago his prediction most certainly came true as Olbermann has already been ordered to back off BillO. It's a pretty sad fucking state of affairs when we allow bullies to run the news media. Not even in the 60's was shit that bad.

[SpiralHawk]

2. O'Reilly is such a typical Republicon chickenhawk

Ptooey

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. O'Reilly is a complete asshole.

He appeared in the broadcast booth at the Boston Red Sox game Friday night. They had various celebs stop by, as they were raising money for the Jimmy Fund, a worthy charity long supported by the Sox.

In his five or so minutes talking with sportscasters Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo, he could talk about nothing but himself, and how he was attending the game that night with Mitt Romney. (He said Romney was going to ask him to be VP - yuk, yuk)

His damn head, as well as his ego, is almost as big as the Goodyear blimp.

[ixion]

4. His politics aren't "conservative" they're extremist and idiotic

more accurately.

[Stuart G]

5. I'd like to see Billo in a debate...let's see.......

Thom Hartman...eh?
Rachael Maddoow
Keith Olbermann
maybe Alan Grayson..maybe Russ Feingold...

Let us see him answer some questions about his trying to "ruin someone". or get them fired..
Let this lawsuit go into court, and then he answers some real questions about the First Ammendment..