Bill O'Reilly Scandal Grows As 8th Former Colleague Calls His War Coverage Claims Absurd

Bill O'Reilly Scandal Grows As 8th Former Colleague Calls His War Coverage Claims Absurd

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Fox News isn't even pretending anymore. Their pretense of journalism has been shattered by Fox News's decision to stand formally behind war coverage liar Bill O'Reilly.

So far, no less than eight former colleagues of O'Reilly have stated that the top rated host on cable news is not telling the truth about his experiences as a war correspondent, but Fox News released a statement that stood behind their man, "Fox News Chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes and all senior management are in full support of Bill O'Reilly." In other words, Fox isn't going to punish O'Reilly for the same sort of distortions that got NBC's Brian Williams suspended without pay for six months.

The one-sentence statement issued by Fox News did something more than stand with O'Reilly. The statement was also a declaration that Fox News isn't interested in facts, truth or journalism. There are journalists who work at Fox News, but their work at the network is shaped by an overriding ideological agenda.

At Fox News, the agenda of advocating for conservatives and the Republican Party always comes first. FNC has played a major role in polarizing the news audience. Sure, they have a few paid contributors from the left, but these folks are tokens that are there provide a foil for Fox News's conservative stars.

For decades, Fox News has pulled off the nifty trick of selling truth and balance while preaching the exact opposite with their programming. Other media outlets are terrified of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, which is why they play along with the ruse the Fox News is a journalistic entity.

Fox News faced none of the concerns that confronted NBC News in the Brian Williams situation. Fox isn't interested in journalism. They aren't interested in news. Fox doesn't have to care about credibility because they have none. Fox has managed to brainwash a small segment of the population by telling them what they want to hear that their network is the source for "real truth" in the media.

The decision to ignore fact and reality is the way business is done at Fox News, but their support of O'Reilly demonstrates that Fox isn't even trying to fool the non-believers into thinking that they are a news network.

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Joe Strupp at Media Matters got yet another of Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues from CBS News to talk about the Fox News host’s alleged “combat situation” coverage in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War, calling his description of his reporting “absurd.”

Even back then, O’Reilly’s colleagues thought he was “grandstanding”. From Media Matters:

Charles Krause, a CBS News correspondent from 1980 to 1983 who reported from Buenos Aires during the same period as O’Reilly, is the latest to contradict the Fox News host. In an interview with Media Matters, Krause called O’Reilly’s descriptions of his reporting “absurd.”

He also recalls O’Reilly being there for a short period of time and not having “any significant role in our coverage of the war.”

“I don’t recall him doing any major story that anybody remembers and he was there a very short time, then he was recalled, I don’t know why,” Krause said. “He wasn’t a team player and people thought he was grandstanding, basically.”

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Fox News Stops Pretending To Be A News Network By Standing Behind Bill O'Reilly

Fox News isn't even pretending anymore. Their pretense of journalism has been shattered by Fox News's decision to stand formally behind war coverage liar Bill O'Reilly.

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Bill oreilly haendi popote.Hawajaanza kumchikia Leo wakati Jana .people hate Fox News na bill oreilly Harvard graduate historian .Brian William is gone watafute mwingira na hayo yalitokea alipokuwa CBS .so wivu ni ugonjwa m baya sana .Na Brian William anaelekea Fox News .media matter is after fox news for long time Hilo linajulikana wanapoteza Muda
 
Bill oreilly haendi popote.Hawajaanza kumchikia Leo wakati Jana .people hate Fox News na bill oreilly Harvard graduate historian .Brian William is gone watafute mwingira na hayo yalitokea alipokuwa CBS .so wivu ni ugonjwa m baya sana .Na Brian William anaelekea Fox News .media matter is after fox news for long time Hilo linajulikana wanapoteza Muda
No body wants a LIAR. You can keep him.
 
And this man gets a massive paycheck...
 
And this man gets a massive paycheck...
O'Reilly could go on live TV

shoot in the head 100 infants lined up in a row

then look at the camera and say "I didnt do that"

or

"These were liberal babies who would have grown up and voted for liberals"

The SAME people who watch him would STILL watch him, in fact his audience would GROW

Fox has NO INTENTION EVER of doing journalism, they are not there for that.

Bill O'Reilly is a serial LIAR
 
Bill oreilly haendi popote.Hawajaanza kumchikia Leo wakati Jana .people hate Fox News na bill oreilly Harvard graduate historian .Brian William is gone watafute mwingira na hayo yalitokea alipokuwa CBS .so wivu ni ugonjwa m baya sana .Na Brian William anaelekea Fox News .media matter is after fox news for long time Hilo linajulikana wanapoteza Muda
kwahiyo akiwa graduate harvard ndio nini?
 
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