Ethics

O'Reilly and Fox News

By Ed Brayton

Politico excerpts a new book by Michael Wolff about Rupert Murdoch. This quote jumps out:

"It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.'s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O'Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator," Wolff wrote, "but [Fox News chief executive] Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other."

"The embarrassment can no longer be missed," Wolff wrote, in another section of the book. "He mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it. He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly. And while it is not that he would give Fox up--because the money is the money; success trumps all--in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets."

Very interesting. He also describes a confrontation between Obama, Murdoch and Ailes:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).