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Fox News' Bill O'Reilly slates Adam Boulton

From MediaGuardian (April 2005)

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fusionlad Founding member
MediaGuardian
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Oh dear. Looks like handbags across the Atlantic between two heavyweight political commentators, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Sky News' Adam Boulton. Word has reached the ear of O'Reilly, gobby host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, that Sky News has launched a new show, The Boulton Factor. In the segment of his show entitled Most Ridiculous Item of the Day - which is probably hard to tell apart from the rest of the programme, for anyone not a rabid Bush supporter - O'Reilly had a pop at our Adam last Thursday. "A political editor at Sky News in London, England, Adam Boulton, has a new nightly news program called, are you ready, The Boulton Factor," O'Reilly said. "Now I'm sure the cheque is in the mail for your humble correspondent. But more importantly, The Boulton Factor better be good. If not it would be ridiculous." You should try watching it, Bill - you might learn a thing or two about being "fair and balanced".


Nice return from The Guardian I think...
DA
Davidjb Founding member
Good old American tv. Who knows, one day they may tell the truth.
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Matrix
Not very insightful but....

Hah! Laughing
AU
Austin316uk
I'm generally quite pro-America, but everyone knows that Fox News is a COMPLETE joke!!! I wouldn't think that this particularly bothers Adam.....
SC
Schwing
fusionlad posted:
MediaGuardian
Quote:
Oh dear. Looks like handbags across the Atlantic between two heavyweight political commentators, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Sky News' Adam Boulton. Word has reached the ear of O'Reilly, gobby host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, that Sky News has launched a new show, The Boulton Factor. In the segment of his show entitled Most Ridiculous Item of the Day - which is probably hard to tell apart from the rest of the programme, for anyone not a rabid Bush supporter - O'Reilly had a pop at our Adam last Thursday. "A political editor at Sky News in London, England, Adam Boulton, has a new nightly news program called, are you ready, The Boulton Factor," O'Reilly said. "Now I'm sure the cheque is in the mail for your humble correspondent. But more importantly, The Boulton Factor better be good. If not it would be ridiculous." You should try watching it, Bill - you might learn a thing or two about being "fair and balanced".


Nice return from The Guardian I think...


Let's get this in perspective. Adam Boulton is good at what he does. However, as a presenter and commentator in the ilk of O'Reilly, I don't think he's up to scratch. Bill is sharp and cuts to the point - whether you agree with him or not, he will ask tough questions if need be. And perhaps most importantly of all, just because Bill asks a question, with a certain phrase, or a certain tone, it doesn't necessarily mean that he agrees with point. As a journalist, he must play the devil's advocate - and if that means that he speaks out and says something different, all in the spirit of freedom of speech and the other freedoms enshrined within the Constitution - then he is doing his job, bringing people and policy to account, and should be respected for that.

Of course, the flip side to this story is that it is a sad state of affairs that sister networks need to copy each other...!
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noggin Founding member
I do hope Mr O'Reilly doesn't think that "The O'Reilly Factor" is an original name for a TV show...

After all we had "The Krypton Factor" and "The Human Factor" way back in the 80s...

What's worse is that he doesn't seem to realise (or maybe he doesn't care) - that Sky and Fox are sister networks, and how highly regarded Adam Boulton is within UK TV circles (ITN and the BBC certainly respect him)

That said - I've never managed to last through a full episode of any Fox interview show - so I don't really care.
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Davidjb Founding member
noggin posted:


That said - I've never managed to last through a full episode of any Fox interview show - so I don't really care.


Dont think may people have Smile
AJ
AJ
Here's a good one...

DigitalSpy posted:
Murdoch: Fox News isn't biased
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has defended the Fox News Channel's claim to be "fair and balanced."

The station, which ranks first above CNN and MSNBC in the States, has come under fire from groups who claim the channel has a clear conservative bias despite its insistence of neutrality.

"We are fair and balanced and we challenge anyone to show FOX News has any bias in it," Murdoch said in an interview with WorldScreen.com.

"People appreciate it for a number of reasons: it’s better presented, it’s more entertaining. We are first with the news. We beat CNN time and again on every big story.

"The major networks have been openly biased to the point of being very leftist. That’s different from being middle-of-the-road."

He continued: "I don’t call myself a conservative. I call myself an independent. Look at who our newspapers have supported. Democrats [in the U.S.] and Labour parties in Australia and Great Britain. They have been the best alternatives for our readers and for the countries that they serve."
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Matrix
AJ posted:
Here's a good one...

DigitalSpy posted:
Murdoch: Fox News isn't biased
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has defended the Fox News Channel's claim to be "fair and balanced."

The station, which ranks first above CNN and MSNBC in the States, has come under fire from groups who claim the channel has a clear conservative bias despite its insistence of neutrality.

"We are fair and balanced and we challenge anyone to show FOX News has any bias in it," Murdoch said in an interview with WorldScreen.com.

"People appreciate it for a number of reasons: it’s better presented, it’s more entertaining. We are first with the news. We beat CNN time and again on every big story.

"The major networks have been openly biased to the point of being very leftist. That’s different from being middle-of-the-road."

He continued: "I don’t call myself a conservative. I call myself an independent. Look at who our newspapers have supported. Democrats [in the U.S.] and Labour parties in Australia and Great Britain. They have been the best alternatives for our readers and for the countries that they serve."


With the risk of sounding like a troll....

Hah! Laughing

If anyone has ever seen Fox news it is clearly biased, for crying out loud on the eve of the Iraq War one corespondent called anti-war protesters anti-American...That and they have the worst pres I've seen to date.

I have the fish and the tea bag, so does anyone know where the Bisto factory is?

Joel.

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