15 Jan
Bill O’Reilly Accidentally Gets Really Racist On Fox News And They Don’t Even Notice
While in a discussion about Hawaii’s social and financial problems, Bill O’Reilly utters a sentence so ignorant and rude that practically any newsroom on the planet would have reprimanded him. Fortunately for O’Reilly, he was on Fox News. In addition to making a ridiculous and sweeping statement about Asian people, O’Reilly also seems to imply that there are cultures that are lazy and careless. Since this clip surfaced, several statements have been made by Hawaiian officials speaking out against O’Reilly and his remarks.
Posted in Media, Race, Class, & Sex by: The Underground
with with these Tags: asians, bill oreilly, faux news, fox news, hawaii, racism.
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10 Aug
Paid to misinform us
When Katie Couric’s five-year, $65 million contract with CBS News expired earlier this year, one of the reported reasons that the network elected to part company with its nightly news anchor was that Couric simply had become too expensive to keep. Her “Evening News” replacement, Scott Pelley, is said to be earning less than $5 million per year.
Meanwhile, some of Couric’s other colleagues in the television news business appear to be doing just fine.
According to TV Guide’s upcoming salary issue, Matt Lauer’s new contract with NBC earns him $17 million a year--a well-deserved figure, given the exotic bird hazards that Lauer has to face on the “Today” show set. Brian Williams, host of NBC’s “Nightly News,” earns $13 million annually–$1 million more than ABC’s “World News” host Diane Sawyer. (more…)
Posted in Media by: The Underground
with with these Tags: abc, Anderson Cooper, bill oreilly, Brian Williams, CBS, Diane Sawyer, fox, katie couric, larry king, Matt Lauer, msnbc, nbc, Regis Philbin, Scott Pelley.
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28 Jul
In the Name of the Fodder: The Fox rapid-response team makes a plea to distinguish violence in the name of a religion from the practitioners and tenets of that religion as long as it’s Christianity.
Posted in National by: The Underground
with with these Tags: Anders Breivik, bill oreilly, christian, extremism, fox news, fundamentalism, Gretchen Carlson, Islamic, Laura Ingraham, media, mongering, Norway, pundits, Rachel Weisz, religion, terrorism, The O'Reilly Factor.
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18 May
Posted in Commentary by: The Underground
with with these Tags: bill oreilly, Common, jon stewart, white gouse visit.
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14 Oct
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walk off the set of the View after Bill O’Reilly indicated that the Fox News Channel-majority-sharedholder-funded-lower-Manhattan community center should not be built because “Muslims killed us on 9/11″
Posted in Media by: The Underground
with with these Tags: bill oreilly, fox news, joy behar, the view, whoopi goldberg.
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09 Aug
Posted in Commentary by: The Underground
with with these Tags: ad hominem, bill oreilly, fox news, fox racism, loon, msnbc, rachel maddow.
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24 Apr
Posted in National by: The Underground
with with these Tags: bill oreilly, fox news, glenn beck, sean hannity, tea bagger, tea party.
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