O’Reilly, 73, the former host of The O’Reilly Factor , then cited the appointment of former CBS News president David Rhodes at Sky Newsas the impetus for the winds of change he believes are about to sweep through the corridors at Fox News.
Sounds juicy, boys & girls, except for one thing…
O’Reilly appears to have missed Rupert Murdoch’swidely reported sale of Sky News to Comcast in 2018 which ended the mogul’s three-decade reign at the British satellite and broadband business.
The Radar Online link is kinda confusing since the headline says they’re NOT “tipped to be fired” but the article itself says they’re out. And a couple of other articles — such as the one claiming the SS is blasting Jimmy Carter as a “phony” and his entering hospice as a “show” — smack of old-school RW glurge.
That said, however, if the article is correct it’s a baby step in the right away from the wrong direction. Though it seems Fucker Carlson’s job is still safe.
Tucker Carlson is not mentioned here, but he was also implicated in the disclosure that Fox News stars privately derided Trump’s election claims while publicly endorsing them.
The two assholes that I would especially like to see sacked and disgraced are Hannity and Carlson. Hannity always reminded me for some reason of either a crooked used car dealer or a crooked service manager at a shady car dealership. He just has those features and mannerisms that scream “crook!”. Carlson never really reminded me of anything human – maybe something like a horse’s ass.
Realistically, the reason that Fox News is so bad is because it’s pop/tabloid journalism. Compare it to any other new source that’s reporting on alien sightings and conspiracies and there’s not going to be much difference in the true/false ratio. The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, etc. - traditional serious news sources for financial/right wing types - are all being perfectly unobjectionable and no one’s complaining about them or the people that read them, despite how many on the right went over to Trump and nonsense.
So if you’re reading The Radar Online - a pop/tabloid journalist rag - I’m not sure that you should feel comfortable trying to call out others for subscribing to nonsense.
How can they fire somebody who deserves a Pulitzer Prize?
So saith the Orange Oracle:
"We’re trying to get the Pulitzer Prize taken away. They got Pulitzer prizes. We’re suing. You know what the prize says? ‘For its concise and accurate reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia event…’ And they have it actually totally wrong.
“Actually, Mark Levin should get a prize. And Gregg Jarrett should get a prize. And even it’s not his deal, Sean Hannity should get a prize. And frankly Jesse should get a prize. And you know who should get a prize? Tucker should get a prize.”
I beg to differ. Since the Murdoch takeover – and in fact even earlier – the WSJ has been particularly objectionable for its various highly partisan lying editorials, particularly in the area of climate science. Just flat-out outright lies.
As for The Radar Online, I’m not familiar with it and my comments were just expressing the hope that what they’re saying is true. At first glance it doesn’t seem likely that Fox would fire any of its biggest stars, but then, it would have seemed unlikely that Bill O’Reilly would be sacked or Roger Ailes forced to resign. It would also have seemed unlikely that the Dominion lawsuit would have caused so much damage at Fox.
When they’re made aware of it, conservatives that I’m seeing on social media sites are completely unmoved by the revelations from the Dominion/Fox case. For one thing, they’ve generally never had a good understanding of how a reputable news gathering process works.
And they absolutely believe that it is Fox’s commercial duty to deliver what they want to hear, facts and reporters’ understandings of them be damned. After all, that’s exactly what the mainstream media has done for decades to make the left so powerful.
I have to disagree somewhat though, as earlier versions of that article made points that quite a lot of his financial weaseling was still vacated by the pardons and/or pleas, so only a relatively small amount was able to be recouped in this particular effort.
Still, I mostly agree, in that any recovery (with penalties and interest) that he and his ilk are forced to cough up is a step towards justice, even if only a small one.
Seems like the courts are starting to tire of TFG’s election denial tactics (without presenting any, you know, actual evidence to support claims) that have been imitated by others.