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| Fox News drops Bill O'Reilly | |
| 2017-04-20 | |
| [FOXNEWS] Fox News is cutting ties with Bill O’Reilly, the biggest star in its 20-year history, after mounting allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior prompted the network to end his program. "Mounting allegations": Well played, Fox News, well played... “After a thorough and careful review of the allegations,” parent company 21st Century Fox said in a statement, “the company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel.” Today’s decision seemed unimaginable a few short weeks ago, given O’Reilly’s long reign as the top-rated host in cable news.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Expect more of these lawsuits, and purges by panicked Murdoch Jr's as a result. Ailes got 20Million going away, O'Reilly is getting 25Million. People will be looking to make a quick pay-day off of Fox News for the next couple years. Also now that he's gone, the accusations against O'Reilly will disappear under the threat of counter-suit by said man. He's no longer under the auspices of the Fox News Legal Team. |
| Posted by: Charles 2017-04-20 17:40 |
| #8 Interesting article on the subject. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-04-20 16:30 |
| #7 Dunno about the sexual harassment. Wouldn't be surprised, though. Some of the accusations go back many, many years. IMHO, the guy always generated more heat than light on his show. His interviews had a disturbing tendency to degenerate into shouting matches so that I couldn't tell what was being said. He came across as a bully who yelled at his guests if they didn't give the answers he wanted. I couldn't watch him and as a result never watched Fox. If they can get somebody better maybe I'll try them again. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-04-20 12:40 |
| #6 PJ Media (Instapundit and others) should get the Koch brothers to finance a libertarian leaning cable station. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-04-20 11:51 |
| #5 A new Trump Network was mentioned during the campaign.... |
| Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-04-20 11:46 |
| #4 Good time for a second conservative (or first libertarian) channel to make a go for it as Fox now has few household names on their channel. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-04-20 10:12 |
| #3 Yeah, pretty likely the guy was an ass in real life too. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-20 10:00 |
| #2 If you can't believe mounting allegations from people who just might possibly be looking for a payday or their 15 minutes of fame, what's the world coming to? Cui bono, baby! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-04-20 07:46 |
| #1 So much for the cake, punch and gold watch. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-20 05:07 |