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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaltimore Sun's David Zurawik: Bill O'Reilly Is "The Face Of That Sick And Predatory" Culture At Fox
DAVID ZURAWIK: I think, Brian, because it's spreading. It continues to grow. ... They're frightened, they don't want to work there. So, you get to a point at Fox where any woman who has other options, why would she want to work in that? That's a culture that Roger Ailes instituted, what, 20 years ago? And he's such an autocratic personality, do you know how deeply rooted that is?
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STELTER: David, I've got 30 seconds left. What's your prediction about what ends up happening here?
ZURAWIK: Short-term, Brian, I don't think anything happens with O'Reilly. He's the franchise, he's the tent pole for prime-time. But it's a rock and hard place, because if they don't go in and tear up that culture and if they don't take some action against somebody by O'Reilly, this thing will continue to fester. I have to say, though, Jane [Hall] is right about advertisers coming forward on their own in this case. It's going to take a big, big wildfire for this advertising boycott to affect them. But they have to do something and the danger right now, Bill O'Reilly has become the face of that sick and predatory culture and everything people have heard since Roger Ailes left the network. That is a difference in the perception of him, even by me as a critic.
https://mediamatters.org/video/2017/04/09/baltimore-suns-david-zurawik-bill-oreilly-face-sick-and-predatory-culture-fox-news/215963
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Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik: Bill O'Reilly Is "The Face Of That Sick And Predatory" Culture At Fox (Original Post)
Mr. Sparkle
Apr 2017
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katmondoo
(6,457 posts)1. Now it goes all the way to the White House
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)2. They have gotten away with crap for so long I hope this does them in.
O'Reilly likes to talk about how they get set up because they are rich and famous, yet it doesn't happen to other rich and famous show hosts.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. Still seems weird that men are dominating these conversations
Sensitive though they may appear to be.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)4. republican "family values" role models like O'Reilly and Comrade Casino
reveal the ugly, degenerate truths at the core of the KGOP.
I sure hope none of the kids in my family ever disgraces himself or herself, and tries to follow the example of these republican role models. No honor. No dignity. No class.