Report: Fox Bosses Despise and Loathe Bill O'Reilly http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/109110/report%3A_fox_bosses_despis... They are, of course, willing to tolerate him for ratings. In a forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch entitled "The Man Who Owns The News," author Michael Wolff reports that the Fox News bosses have no fondness for Bill O'Reilly but are willing to tolerate him for his ratings:
"It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.'s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O'Reilly, the bullying, mean- spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator," Wolff wrote, "but [Fox News chief executive] Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other." "The embarrassment can no longer be missed," Wolff wrote, in another section of the book. "He mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it. He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly. And while it is not that he would give Fox up--because the money is the money; success trumps all--in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
