BOR already had a representative FR on to rebut his comments and FR ended up looking worse. There was no strategic prep for the interview and the only talking points made were “well, we TRY to get rid of the bad comments” and “everybody does it”. I woud have had stats on hand of the number of pulled posts and banned posters on FR since day one. At least that makes the point that you are on the problem but a few still slip under the radar.
Both reinforced BOR’s position that FR is full of “unflattering” comments. The only response to that kind of attack should be “the post was immediately removed and the poster banned, just as you do Bill on your own posting board when an unwanted vistor slips through the cracks”.
The problem with this incident is neither happened.
BOR’s only response to that would be “You need to do a better job” upon which you respond “We’re trying to a better job everyday, but please don’t broadbrush the entire site for the idiotic comments of a few, it’s not fair to the tens of thousands of reasonable and responsible BOR viewers who post there everyday”.
My post in 191 says essentially that...but also take O'Reilly to task for broadbushing a site and, by extension, the man who runs it, with a post about diabetes, when the owner himself is suffering from the same disease.
IMHO, O'Reilly should do more homework and journalistic research before making such statements and before using that particular tool to do so.