Who's Looking Out for You by Bill O'Reilly

Author:Bill O'Reilly [O'Reilly, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sociology, Social Science, Government, Social Aspects, 21st Century, General, United States, Mass Media, Political Ideologies, Conservatism & Liberalism, Political Science, Social Values, Media Studies, History
ISBN: 9780767913805
Publisher: Random House Audio

On the print side, the New York Times can unleash some brilliant reporters like Jeff Gerth if the spirit moves the elitist editors. Unfortunately, the Times is far more interested in promoting ideology and political correctness (remember the Jayson Blair scandal) than in exposing corruption, and we know that the now-resigned executive editor, Howell Raines, allowed his disdain for the Iraq War to shade the hard news coverage the Times provided about the situation. In the first few days of the conflict, the New York Times was loaded with negative headlines about how "fierce" the Iraqi resistance was. At the same time, Fox News was reporting that the coalition was cutting through the Iraqi forces like, with apologies to Mike Myers, butter. Subsequently, Fox was proved right and the Times wrong. More on the war coming up, but in my opinion, the New York Times booted one of the biggest stories in decades. The syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, who writes about our failure to protect our borders, is definitely looking out for the folks, so her column is worth reading. The old-timers like Jimmy Breslin at Newsday and Pete Hamill at the New York Daily News can still light it up once in a while on behalf of the working and average American, but where are the angry,, crusading young reporters and columnists? Unfortunately, few of them exist, because the journalistic profession doesn't encourage that anymore. I guess I am one of the angriest journalists around these days. At least, that's what the ABC newsmagazine Prime Time Live put out there. When they did a segment on me, correspondent Chris Cuomo must have asked me twenty times, "Why are you so angry?" "Because every journalist should be angry," I answered. "Reporters are in a position to expose corruption and deceit in high places. But in order to do that you have to be annoyed about corruption and deceit. If you're a journalist and you're not angry about social injustice, get out. Be a barber." But Cuomo, son of the former governor of New York, seemed doubtful. He kept questioning me about my financial status, my success, my good life. How could I still be angry when I had such big success? he persisted. What can I say? Corruption, unfairness, incompetence, obsequiousness, and exploiting the folks have always made me mad. No amount of money in my pocket will douse that fire. You are either angry about social injustice or you're not. You can't teach it, you have to feel it. And that's the crux of the matter when it comes to the media looking out for you. If it's only about money, the folks will get hosed all day long by the media. And right now in America, it is almost all about money.

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