O'Reilly Fired by Fox

[Sandy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/busi ... .html?_r=0

As advertisers and viewers desert in droves.

[Jon Estes]

[William Thornton]

Never much cared for the guy. Don't watch him. Won't miss him.

I like the 6:00 Fox News, Chris Wallace and most of their commentators, especially krauthammer. If tucker Carlson get in at 8pm, I'll catch that occasionally. Megan never did much for me.

[Jon Estes]

[Tim Bonney]

How many male employees of Fox will be left if the get rid of all the those committing sexual misconduct?

[Sandy]

[Tim Bonney]

[JE Pettibone]

[Tim Bonney]

[KeithE]

[Jon Estes]

[Jon Estes]

[Jon Estes]

[Sandy]

"Innocent until proven guilty" is a legal term. Settling to avoid a trial is an admission of guilt. You don't settle if you're innocent. O'Reilly's good buddy the orange haired buffoon in the White House told him that. Yep, the same pathological liar who has settled a dozen such cases himself.

Fox News does not have "thousands" of employees working in the specific headquarters office where O'Reilly and the executive level is located. Counting the consultants and commentators, there may be about 200 employees. And it's not just two incidents.

I'm pretty sure that if this involved a mainstream media group, or one of the "liberal" cable companies, you would not object to the same language being applied.

[Sandy]

[JE Pettibone]

[Joseph Patrick]

From Joseph Patrick...aka Gerry Milligan

Risking a thread drift here..

Just how many of the right wing-nut crowd will be lost without instructions from Bill O?

[Haruo]

[Haruo]

[Stephen Fox]

[Jim]

O'Reilly the Loser:

[Sandy]

The sexual harassment at Fox News is not, according to reports, something new. Maybe they let this happen because of recent ratings changes.

Starting with Joe Scarborough and MIka Bzezinski a couple of years ago, with a less one-sided approach and more discussion and debate with contributors, MSNBC pretty much got away from the commentator-entertainer model in its evening format, and went with hard news programs right up to 10 pm eastern time. Maddow anchors that at one end, and now they've got Greta Van Susteren at the other. Maddow started beating O'Reilly's ratings with her reporting on the Flint water crisis, and has doubled her audience during the buffoon's candidacy and presidency. So maybe Fox has decided the best way to make changes is to let the chips fall, and stop paying the hush money. All their ratings magnets and top journalists have migrated elsewhere. Megyn Kelly was a draw, regardless of the format she used, and so was Van Susteren. It will be interesting to see if they have anyone who can get back up to where O'Reilly was at his peak. I'm sure there's still a market for a far right niche that would rather hear one-sided commentary and name calling than hard news, but it seems like that's a shrinking group more so than it was a decade ago.

[Dave Roberts]

I have been trying to sort this over the weekend. This is only my opinion, based on what I have read from a variety of sources. First, O'Reilly has not been convicted of any crime. Second, O'Reilly has been multiply accused of sexual harassment and settlements have been paid. Third, my suspicion is that Fox had had enough of this from him and made a business decision, not necessarily a moral one. Letting him go was considered the best thing to do for the bottom line, not for the network reputation. Fourth, handing out a golden parachute seems the way networks deal with those no longer in their best graces. Never fear, he will pop up again on some site.

[Sandy]

[KeithE]