[CHRON] The No Facts Zone - O'Liely at it again

The difference is that Rather is supposed to be a serious journalists while O'Reilly is really an entertainer.

 

That pretty much sums it up.

 

Then which cheesey tabloid show was it? You were a fan right?

"Inside Edition"?

just razin' ya brother

 

Why is that not an argument FOR Fox. If Fox hosts the show, they don't have any culpability for the shows that air on their network? Maybe I don't understand your point.

 

Max is trying to say there are other networks as bad as fox news.

 

It was also Bill O'Reilly.

 

Background on O'Reilly:

After leaving Miami, O'Reilly returned to school, earning a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University in 1976. While attending BU, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the Boston Phoenix. O'Reilly did his broadcast journalism internship in Miami during this time, and was also an entertainment writer and movie reviewer for the Miami Herald.

O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting. Then it was off to KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado where he won an Emmy for his coverage of a skyjacking. O'Reilly also worked in Portland, Oregon, Hartford, Connecticut, and Boston. [3] (http://www.thebiofile.com/articles/stories/101950230.php) In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York where he won his second Emmy for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. He was promoted to the network as a CBS News correspondent and covered the wars in the Falkland Islands and El Salvador from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1986, O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent on ABC World News Tonight. In three years, he appeared on the show over one hundred times, receiving two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting.

In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated Inside Edition, a current affairs television program (called "infotainment" by critics). He started as senior correspondent and backup anchor for British journalist David Frost, but soon took over the anchor chair when the viewers found him more appealing. In addition to being one of the first broadcast journalists to cover the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, O'Reilly also obtained the first exclusive interview with murderer Joel Steinberg and was the first national anchor on the scene of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

In 1995, O'Reilly left Inside Edition to enroll at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received a Master's Degree in Public Administration. Upon leaving Harvard, Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of the then startup FOX News Channel, hired O'Reilly to anchor The O'Reilly Report, which aired weeknights. The nascent channel's most popular show was renamed to The O'Reilly Factor when it moved to a later time slot in 1998 since the host was the main "factor" of the show.

 

If a convicted sex offender has served his time in prison, I don't understand why we should hook GPS monitor on him. Isn't his civil rights being violated?

 

Because most sex offenders tend to be repeat offenders whether they've served their time or not. If a child rapist moved next door to you and your children, wouldn't you like to know?

Which is more important, a child rapist's civil rights or your children's right to not get raped and murdered?

Now, can we get back to the topic of the thread which is bashing Forehead Boy?

 

Did you know that the Chronicle is the largest local newspaper in America that has yet to win a Pulitzer? And with Jason Spencer's perpetually inept reporting on HISD, it is appears poised to kept that streak alive.

 

This could be a condition for his/her parole. When the parole is up, the GPS monitor likely goes.

 

I have no problem with that. I am OK with longer sentence for sex felons. But to put monitors on an ex-offender who has done his/her time of the punishment is morally wrong, unfair, and probably ineffective as well.

 

Constitutionally both are important. The job of government is protect the rights of individuals under it but government itself is the biggest threat to individual rights. The trick is coming up with a reasonable balance.

 

Did Bill O'Reilly address the Chronicle editorial on his sitcom?

 

Surprising to see everyone's on the same page here that O'Reilly's an idiot.

 

make that a loud-mouth-idiot.

 

He did. I saw a transcript somewhere. He basically ignored about 98% of the substance of their criticism.

 

I don't watch O'Reilly much but I happened to catch that one segment. I was peeved at The Chronicle until I actually found the editorial and read it.