"John Emmons" wrote in message
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The simple fact that anyone calls what Mr. O'Reilly does "news" says a lot
about the claimant.

His web site claims
"news analysis with investigative reporting"

Isn't that pretty much what he does?

He is not now nor has he ever been a journalist.
His web site claims

"Bill O'Reilly has won a bevy of journalism awards including two Emmy's. He
began his broadcasting career in Scranton, Pennsylvania and proceeded onto
Dallas, Denver, Boston and Portland, Oregon as a local news reporter/anchor.
In 1980, he returned home to New York City for a stint at WCBS-TV before
moving to the national news scene reporting for CBS and ABC News. Mr.
O'Reilly continued his climb as the anchor of the syndicated program "Inside
Edition," before settling in at Fox News in 1996. "

common usage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and
dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and
people.

Would think he qualifies


Contrary to what he and his friend Sean Hannity claim, their shows are not
"news" they are in fact, talk shows disguised to make the
listeners/viewers
think that they're getting actual news.

No they claim to be claim to be commentators or news analysis's... is this
such a difficult concept to understand?

When confronted with his own
contradictiory statements, Mr. O'Reilly's typical response is "I'll get
back
to you on that".

Which statements were these, about what, ever signifigant?

Given that he lied about recieving an award for journalism


Wasn't that the equivalent of a typo? In a verbal interview he referred to
one award when in fact it was another......Isn't expecting in a non scripted
interview zero errors unrealistic?....I know of no one public or private
that can attain that standard. Was there a attempt to deceive to some gain
or benefit? Like him or loathe him he has attained enough success to sleep
in very comfortable bed and would need no career embellishment to further
his successes

as well as about his own background, the fact that he is caught lying on a
regular basis on his faux "news" show is no surprise.


So it should be pretty easy to share a few of these lies......Please find a
few that approx. anything close to deception.

What's sad is that millions of otherwise intelligent people get caught up
in
thinking that what television and radio personalities say is both truthful
as well as news in the traditional sense of the word. That applies to
those
who get their "news" from the Daily Show as well as from Mr. O'Reilly and
Mr. Hannity.

John E,

Sadly personality cults seems to flow both ways........those that loathe
O'Reilly seem happy to invent great faults out of petty non relevant
comments.....Why is it so hard to just claim you don't like the guy? Rod