Fox To Investigate Bill O'Reilly

OVER THE WEEKEND, 24TH CENTURY FOX SAID YOU KNOW WHAT?
WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND INVESTIGATE THE SEXUAL
HARASSMENT CLAIM AGAINST BILL O'REILLY.
WELL, GOOD FOR YOU.
I MEAN, HE'S HAD SOME SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS
TOWARD HIM SINCE 2002 BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT?
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THIS HAPPENS, THIS STATEMENT FROM FOX
HAPPENED AFTER A COMPLAINT WAS PHONED INTO THE NETWORKS
CORPORATE HOTLINE LAST WEEK BY WENDY WALSH, A FORMER REGULAR
GUEST ON THE O'REILLY FACTOR TV SHOW AND HER LAWYER LISA BLOOM
THOUGHT IT IS INTERESTING THAT THEY PHONED INTO THE NETWORKS
HOTLINE BECAUSE THE NETWORK IS SELF KEPT SAYING WELL, YOU KNOW,
ALL THESE WOMEN KEEP MAKING THESE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ROGER
AILES AND BILL RILEY NO ONE CALLED HOTLINE THOUGHT SO I
THINK LISA BLOOM AND WENDY WALSH WANTED TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT
CALLING THE HOTLINE AND MAKING A BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS AS THEY
SHOULD.
IT IS INTERESTING AGAIN THAT FOX HAD NO INTENTION OF
DOING A PROPER INVESTIGATION AND SO NOW?
UNTIL THIS PAST WEEKEND.
15 YEARS AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL THIS.
IT'S CRAZY.
THEY HAD NO PROBLEM SETTLING WITH FIVE
DIFFERENT WOMEN TO THE TUNE OF $13 MILLION AND DEFENDING BILL
O'REILLY IN THE PAST, BUT NOW ALL THE SUDDEN THEY'RE LIKE
OKAY, MAYBE WE SHOULD GET SOME PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED INTO AN
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THIS.
AS YOU GUYS PROBABLY
ALREADY KNOW, A NUMBER OF ADVERTISERS DID DECIDE TO PULL
OUT OF THE BILL RIGHTLY SHOW AND HOWARD KURTZ IS THE FIRST
FOX NEWS HOST TO EVEN MENTION ANY OF THIS ON HIS PROGRAM.
I WANT TO SHOW YOU THE FIRST CLIP WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT IT.
TAKE A LOOK AT.
THIS WEEK WITH 50 COMPANIES HAVE PULLED THEIR
ADVERTISING FROM O'REILLY'S TOP RATED CABLE NEWS PROGRAM.
I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT CLIP BECAUSE.
IS OPERATED, DID YOU KNOW THAT?
THEY CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES.
TOP-RATED CABLE NEWS PROGRAM.
WHY IS THAT EVEN RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION?
THEY PULLED THEIR ADS BECAUSE BILL RILEY HAS BEEN ACCUSED BY
SEVERAL WOMEN WHO USED TO WORK AT THE NETWORK ARE CURRENTLY
WORK THEIR SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY THE WAY, FOR ANYBODY WHO MIGHT
DEFEND HIM EVEN TODAY BECAUSE HEY, THERE'S NO PROOF, THEY
SETTLED SO HAVEN'T SEEN ANY EVIDENCE THAT KEEP IN MIND THAT
IN 2004 THERE WAS AN AUDIO RECORDING, AND AUDIO RECORDING
OF HIM CALLING HIS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ANDREA MACK CHRIS AND
TALKING ABOUT HOW HE WANTS TO ROBE ROB'S SOAPY LOOPHOLE LIVE
ALL OVER HER.
LATER HE CALLED IT A FALAFEL BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU
WORK UP AN APPETITE WHEN YOU ARE SEXUALLY HARASSING SOMEONE AS
EVIDENCE OF THEM DOING IN THE PAST I JUST CRAZY TO CONSTANTLY
DEFEND HIM EVEN AFTER THE EVIDENCE WAS SHOWN BACK IN 2004.
ONE OTHER QUICK THING.
LET'S LISTEN TO WHAT HOWARD KURTZ HAD TO SAY ABOUT
BOXES APPROACH ALL THIS A.
THIS IS BEEN A DIFFICULT AND UNCOMFORTABLE PERIOD FOR THE
PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
THE NETWORK
HAS BEEN TRYING TO MOVE ON, TO CHANGE THE CULTURE AND TO MAKE
CLEAR THAT ANY KIND OF HARASSMENT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
IT'S BEEN A REALLY INCOME DOUBLE SITUATION.
ALMOST UNCOMFORTABLE
AS A PHONE CALL BILL O'REILLY.
IS A VERY DIFFICULT TIME FOR HOWARD KURTZ*YOU HAVING A
HARD TIME BECAUSE OF THESE ALLEGATIONS QUESTO YOUR
LIFE IS VERY DIFFICULT.
I'M SORRY.
ANYWAY,
THERE TRYING TO CHANGE THE CULTURE BUT NOT REALLY TRYING TO
THEIR INVESTIGATING AN OUTSIDE GATE, THAT'S AMAZING.
WHAT YOU
THINK THEY'RE GOING TO FIND QUESTO,.
THEY SETTLED ALL THOSE
LAWSUITS, THEY KNOW WHAT THAT WAS GOING ON, LIKE THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BOSTON.
THEY KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING,
THEY ARE INVESTIGATING BECAUSE THE HEAT IS ON THEM.
AS MUCH AS
THEY DON'T WANT TO INVESTIGATE IT, THEY REALLY DON'T WANT IT TO
HAVE AN OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION SO THEY'RE GOING TO JUMP
IN FRONT OF AND SWEEP IT UNDER THE RUG.
YOU CAN EXPECT THAT ANY TIME.
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO FIRE BILL O'REILLY.
HE'S TOP-RATED I HEAR.
HE STILL THERE.
THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.
OF COURSE, SINCE
THEY GOING TO LAUNCH THIS INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION BILL
O'REILLY NEEDS TO LAWYER UP AND HE HAS IRONICALLY DECIDED TO HIRE
TO DEFEND HIM.
ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE CONSERVATIVE
COMMENTATOR WHO MADE HIS NAME IN THE 1990S DISPARAGING THEN
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON FOR HAVING AN EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR
HAS HIRED CLINTON'S LAWYER FROM THE EMBATTLED MARK
MONICAGATE ARAMARK BEVY ARMY.
IRONIC, STRANGE, SAD.
HE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT ERA OF LAW.
I GUESS IT.
HE DOES.
FINALLY I THINK THE MOST RELEVANT PART OF THIS
ENTIRE CONVERSATION, THE FACT THAT HIS AUDIENCE CONTINUES TO
SUPPORT HIM AND HE HAS EXPERIENCED A LITTLE BIT OF A
RATINGS BOOST AS A RESULT OF THE SCANDAL.
THE LAST WEEKEND BUT
THE WEEKEND BEFORE THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED THAT BOMBSHELL
REPORT INDICATING THAT 24 SENSUALLY FOX HAS SETTLED WITH
FIVE DIFFERENT WOMEN TO THE TUNE OF $13 MILLION.
ALL THESE WOMEN
HAD MADE SIMILAR SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
BILL RILEY.
RIGHT AFTER THAT WAS PUBLISHED HERE IS WHAT
HAPPENED WITH BILL O'REILLY'S RATINGS.
APPROXIMATELY 3.8
MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED O'REILLY SHOW ON TUESDAY, THAT WAS THE
TUESDAY AFTER THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED A REPORT.
THAT CLIP
LAST WEEK WHERE O'REILLY'S TOP-RATED SHOW HAD ONLY 2.3
MILLION VIEWERS.
O'REILLYS MONDAY AND TUESDAY SHOWS HAD A
14% RATINGS BUMP FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK.
MAYBE THAT'S THE
REASON WHY FOX CONTINUES TO EMPLOY HIM EVEN THOUGH AGAIN,
THESE ACCUSATIONS DATE BACK TO 2002.
IMAGINE YOU ARE A KID.
THANKFULLY A KID DOESN'T PAY
ATTENTION TO POLITICS OR MEDIA LIKE FOX NEWS BUT IF YOU
SEXUALLY HARASS WOMEN, PERHAPS SEXUALLY ABUSE THEM, WHAT DO YOU
GET?
YOU CAN GET A HUGE BOOST IN YOUR RATINGS OR BECOME
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND I THINK SOME PEOPLE, PEOPLE
WHO HATE FOX NEWS ARE GOING TO SEE THIS AND THINK MAYBE NOT
EVEN CONSCIOUSLY, OKAY, THIS IS TERRIBLE FOR THOSE WOMEN,
THEY'RE GETTING SEXUALLY HARASSED WITH CONSERVATIVE WOMEN
AND THEY DECIDED TO WORK AT FOX NEWS.
WE STILL HAVE HUMAN
DIGNITY AND THINK ABOUT HOW ALLOWING THIS OLD-SCHOOL MADMAN
CULTURE TO CONTINUE AT FOX NEWS, THAT DOESN'T JUST HURT THE
EMPLOYEES OF FOX NEWS.
IT HURTS THE VIEWERS.
THEY WOULD CHANGE IF THEY WERE FORCED TO.
THEY MIGHT
BECOME NOT JUST ETHICAL BUT BETTER JOURNALISTS IF THEY
WEREN'T HOLDING ONTO THE OLD WAYS OF DOING BUSINESS.
RIGHT, AND I THINK MY PAST COMMENTARY IN REGARD
TO CONSERVATIVE WOMEN I'VE MADE CLEAR THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY
FANCY THEM, BUT EVEN WITH THAT SAID, THEY'RE HUMANS.
REGARDLESS OF THEIR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY I WILL DO
EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING NECESSARY TO SUPPORT AND
PROTECT THEM AGAINST THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR.

Fox To Investigate Bill O'Reilly

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