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Time to turn off Bill O'Reilly as he requests
Posted: Feb 19, 2015
Bill O'Reilly--the next Brian Williams--
"If you can't trust a news anchor or commentator, then you are not going to watch that person."--Bill O'Reilly.
Nobody from CBS got to the Falklands," says Bob Schieffer. "For us, you were a thousand miles from where the fighting was. So we had some great meals."
Given the remote location of the war zone—which included the British territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, more than 1,400 miles offshore—few reporters were able to witness and report on the combat that claimed the lives of about 900 Argentine and British troops. The government in London only allowed about 30 British journalists to accompany its military forces. As Caroline Wyatt, the BBC's defense correspondent, recently noted, "It was a war in which a small group of correspondents and crews sailing with the Royal Navy were almost entirely dependent upon the military—not only for access to the conflict, but also for the means of reporting it back to the UK." And Robert Fox, one of the embedded British reporters, recalled, "We were, in all, a party of about 32-34 accredited journalists, photographers, television crew members. We were all white, male, and British. There was no embedded reporter from Europe, the Commonwealth or the US (though they tried hard enough), let alone from Latin America."
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Nice article. Turns out Bill-O is on video lying repeatedly. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]So now I can never, ever trust O'Reilly ever again, which will be easy since I never trusted him before anyway.
Fox should fire him immediately and anyone else that has lied, but then who would have to go? It would actually be easier to make a list of who would actually remain on the air:
1. Shep.
2.
3.
I got no one beyond Shep!
Rebuttal - HA
[ In Reply To ..]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/19/oreilly-denounces-mother-jones-story-on-his-war-reporting/
Rebuttal--calling someone a liar is not rebuttal - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Oh, semantics, isn't that language, and isn't journalism the conveyance of language. O'Reilly should be better at journalism than that, unless, of course, selling books requires exaggeration?
examples cited:
--In a 2001 book, O’Reilly said: “I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands."
--In a Washington panel discussion, O’Reilly said: “I've covered wars, okay? I've been there. The Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Middle East. I've almost been killed three times, okay.”
--In a 2004 column, O’Reilly wrote: “Having survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war, I know that life-and-death decisions are made in a flash."
But that reference—O’Reilly saying he was “in Argentina”--undercuts the thrust of the story, that he claimed to have covered the Falklands combat.
The same phrase, “in Argentina,” also appears in some 2013 comments by O’Reilly cited by Corn:
“I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us. I had to make a decision. And I dragged him off…”
In the interview, O’Reilly described the scene in Buenos Aires in the aftermath of the hostilities in the Falklands: “Thousands took to the streets. Hundreds of troops surrounded the presidential palace. I was in the middle of that. A reporter was shot in the legs. People were throwing rocks, bricks, some had guns.”
So the dispute comes down to O’Reilly’s shorthand use of the Falklands and the term “war zone.”
Corn, who gained public attention when he obtained the Mitt Romney “47 percent” tape during the 2012 campaign, defended his focus on O’Reilly’s language.
The point is that all of the exaggeration is there, just like Brian Williams.
Wow. That article - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Shows Bill-O-Air to be even shadier than I thought. At least Mr. Williams was in the vicinity of the attack, not like the implications Bill-O was trying to make.
Fox should just do the right thing and shut down for 6 months. I am sure Shep could use a vacation from being near all that stressful lying.
There is a reason his show has been #1 forever. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]No message necessary. LOL
His show has not been #1 forever. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Is this statement meant to illustrate exaggeration in reporting or is this meant to be a factual statement?
Obviously, no one's show has been #1 forever. LOL
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