Most of the news about Bill O’Reilly examines the history of advertising, accusations, money,
and news ratings.
The main topic of headlines from big news outlets are about Fox News—not what Bill
O’Reilly’s future is, but what Bill O’Reilly’s future is at Fox, the competitor of reporting
news companies.
It was all political.
Yes, there are and have been for quite some time bolstered allegations that O’Reilly
has too much playtime.
The allegations against him pale in comparison to Clinton—either Clinton.
But, it only mattered before because Bill was big.
It only bit this time because Roger Ailes wasn’t there to circle the wagons and he
was targeted by special groups, such as Color of Change, that go after a media personality’s
advertisers.
That tried and failed against Rush Limbaugh, but not against Glenn Beck, Bill Cosby, Roger
Ailes, and now Bill O’Reilly.
Again, Sarah Palin called Republicans a “party of cannibals”.
They are.
Everyone has problems.
Only venues that cater to Republican-voting audiences exploit each other’s problems
like chickens in a pecking order.
Were O’Reilly’s audience made mostly of Democrats, he might have been praised.
Only Roger Ailes would not capitulate over the accusations against O’Reilly over a
decade ago, but the Murdoch’s would capitulate over Ailes and they did last year.
Now, Fox capitulated again.
It won’t stop.
Fox News is beginning a trend of giving in to every weak-kneed demand like General Motor’s
executives caving-in to most every whim of the unions.
It’s over for Fox.
It’s over and dead.
No industry leader allows its most-viewed show’s most-viewed host to leave—and continues
to be the industry leader.
Right or wrong, dishonest or ethical, when Fox News fired Bill O’Reilly Fox News fired
itself.
It’s all about money.
Under the pioneer of Fox News, Ailes, it was about long-term money.
Now, governed by some “great successor”, it’s about short-term money.
It’s always been about money.
Now that it’s become about the short-term, so short is the term Fox News has left.
Everything will shift to alternative media.
O’Reilly is resuming his work at billoreilly.com as of Monday, April 24th.
And, Milo Yiannopoulos announced this week that he is returning to the public eye in
a “comeback tour”.
Big news venues have attempted to take out Donald Trump, bolster the Democratic candidate
in Georgia’s special election—who still didn’t win the necessary 50% of the vote
to keep his seat past June.
And, Republicans continue to play a losing game—eleven Republican candidates in the
same Georgia district!?
“Big News” is a dying industry cannibalizing itself.
Were it not for the desperate scramble for what remains of industry-wide dwindling ratings,
Bill O’Reilly’s problems, whatever they may be, wouldn’t have mattered.