O'Reilly Urges News Media To Avoid Criticizing U.S. War Moves

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Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly suggested Tuesday that American TV news outlets refrain from airing reports that would depict the U.S. unfavorably as it carries out its war against terrorism. Referring to an ABC News report that the CIA had moved detainees out of secret prisons in Europe prior to the arrival there of Secretary of State Rice, O'Reilly remarked, "I would not have reported what ABC News reported. I would not have done it. I did not put Abu Ghraib pictures on this broadcast, the only television journalist not to do so. I do feel that the press has a responsibility to help the government in the war on terror." O'Reilly's comments came during his interview with former Army intelligence officer Ralph Peters, author of New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy, who said that reports like ABC's "are putting our programs at risk. ... But worst of all, Bill, it's killing American soldiers."

This man always seems to take the highroad as long as it something he agrees with. He is full of horseshit, the American public has a right to know what is going on, and we dont need government run news programs either which this ideology leads to.
 
Well isn't the general rule that if your party is the majority ruling party then criticism may "hurt our efforts" but if your party is the minority then criticism is patriotic?
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']I did not put Abu Ghraib pictures on this broadcast, the only television journalist not to do so.[/QUOTE]
Just goes to show what he considers newsworthy

[quote name='Ikohn4ever']I do feel that the press has a responsibility to help the government in the war on terror[/QUOTE]
Sort of like how Rwandan news and radio hosts broadcasted live to help their country in hunting down tutsis/terrorists?
 
http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Ralph Peters

I remember PAD posting an op-ed written by Ralph Peters. Just in case you were one of the three people who didn't think that Fox News was an extension of the Republican party, perhaps you can compare the number of times Peters has appeared on Fox programming and published in the NYP (another News Corp. arm, one more laughable than the news station) to the number of times an equally unpalatable liberal has been a guest on Fox programming, or been given op-ed space in the NYP. You know, like all those never that Molly Ivins or all that once that Michael Moore was on O'Reilly.

I don't know which is closer to the truth of this matter:
(1) I hate Bill O'Reilly
(2) If you believe a damned thing he says, I reserve a special kind of sympathy for your idiocy.
 
Those that refuse to expose government corruption are the biggest traitors to this country.
 
[quote name='capitalist_mao']Just goes to show what he considers newsworthy[/QUOTE]
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he still talked about the events just didn't think the pictures should be seen on TV where kids could see it. He denounced Abu Ghraib but didn't think the pics should be shown. I don't like O'Reilly, i just think this deserves clarification.

[quote name='capitalist_mao']
Sort of like how Rwandan news and radio hosts broadcasted live to help their country in hunting down tutsis/terrorists?[/QUOTE]
I don't see the connection here. I see where your coming from; however, the two ideas are not commensurate.
 
[quote name='munch']I don't see the connection here. I see where your coming from; however, the two ideas are not commensurate.[/QUOTE]

Well, the parallels are that we are indeed hunting down specific people and we are told to support our government. Whenever something like this happens, I always think back to the framers and their inherent distrust of government and their desire to strip most of the power from it.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']I did not put Abu Ghraib pictures on this broadcast, the only television journalist not to do so.[/QUOTE]

And yet Fox calls him a "commentator" and claims to have fair and balanced news.:lol:
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I don't know which is closer to the truth of this matter:
(1) I hate Bill O'Reilly
(2) If you believe a damned thing he says, I reserve a special kind of sympathy for your idiocy.[/QUOTE]

I don't know, I see him sometimes and sometimes agree with him on things. Sometimes he's way, way over the top and sometimes even funnily so. I'll agree with him in one segment of the show and the next one I'll be laughing at how ridiculously hypocritical he is on another issue. Kind of makes it a fairly interesting watch, unless he's devoting time to things that have no business being news (girl in Aruba comes to mind, still inexplicably in the news).
 
O'Reilly shouldn't be instructing a pig to a trough, unless its himself.


When somethings blatantly wrong, it will and should be critisized, Sorry mister opinionated news man in a suit, why don't you make up some more viewer mail to critique and sell more merch to PAD, because your opinions are worth less than the mouse pads you sell on your website...
 
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