Bill O’Reilly controversy spotlights partisan media’s growth

The Boston Globe ^ | February 27, 2015 | Don Aucoin

[Cincinatus' Wife]

While jousting with Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly a few years ago, Jon Stewart proclaimed him “the Mayor of “Bull---- Mountain.’’

But that image is imprecise. Fox News, the cable network beloved of conservatives, is less a mountain than a fortress, or maybe a tank. Firmly in the driver’s seat is O’Reilly, who worked at a Boston TV station and attended Boston University and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The network’s operational mode is the furthest thing from serene mountaintop remoteness: Day in and day out, Fox girds for ideological battle with what it sees as the liberal establishment — seldom more fiercely than in the past week, when O’Reilly has faced challenges to his veracity on several fronts. The network’s response on behalf of its marquee star has demonstrated anew the extent to which Fox’s world view, language, and instincts are as much those of a political campaign as of a news organization.

That’s why it is nearly impossible to imagine O’Reilly being ousted from his chair at Fox, where he hosts “The O’Reilly Factor,” despite accusations that include claims he exaggerated stories about his coverage of the 1982 Falklands War as a correspondent for CBS News. By revealing contrast, it is extremely hard to envision Brian Williams returning to the NBC News anchor desk after his bosses suspended him for six months without pay for telling a false story about being in a helicopter that came under fire in Iraq.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rush's warning about content being controlled by the government [with new controls just passed in Congress] came to mind while reading this piece.

Bill O'Reilly's self-congratulatory posture of being "fair" to both sides of the political spectrum is irritating and pieces like this in the Boston Globe should remind O'Reilly that there is NO WAY you can ever be "fair" with the Left.

Live and learn.

[mothball]

Give Judge Jeanine Pirro his spot.

[joshua c]

The left is looking for tit for tat. So they can say everybody does it.

[seeker41]

This is being orchestrated from the white hut-it will only get worse.

[what's up]

This is a David Corn project.

Same guy that created the Valerie Plame "scandal"

He is really the worst of the worst.

[bray]

Which means it is being funded by Soros.

Pray America is waking

[Chainmail]

Bill O'Reilly is a pompous, draft-dodging blowhard but at least he isn't a lying Leftist. 1982? They have to go that far back to try to find something that may have been exaggerated?

Heck, Hillary was outright lying just last week!

[Vigilanteman]

The Leprechaun is no conservative. He is a narcissistic blowhard who is best described as a mushy moderate.

But he, at least, does his research, writes good books and can be entertaining at times.

[Gargantua]

...the white hut

LMFWSCAO!!!

[seeker41]

;) lol