Discussion: Bill O'Reilly: 'Journalism Standards Have Declined Dramatically' (VIDEO)

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I wish I could attribute it to mere projection or lack of self-awareness, but everything I know about him compels the conclusion that it’s a deliberate application of sociopathic Rovian backspin.

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Is this a joke?

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Adolf Hitler complains not enough Jews in Germany!

FILM AT ELEVEN.

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Pot, meet kettle.
Holy crap, this man is practically the driving force behind journalistic decline.

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Did Billo say “young whippersnappers.” or “Get off my lawn!”?

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“Pot…kettle black” Absolutely no shame. (Oh, sorry, just saw I repeated someone else’s comment, because so f***king obvious. And people actually believe Fox News, when the lies, hypocrisy, propaganda are so f***king obvious.)

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Bill is absolutely correct. In fact the start of this decline occurred on September 10, 1949.

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O’Reilly said that nowadays, journalists can throw any story out there and subsequently claim “well I didn’t report it, [someone else] did!”

Reporters have been using this excuse for decades.

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Ernie Pyle used to kick your ass for your lame-brianed goof ups, didn’t he Bill?

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Billo would snarl that Pyle was looking at a picture of a war zone and he misspelled ‘Normandy.’

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‘Journalism Standards Have Declined Dramatically’

True enough…as far as it goes.

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The man does have the balls of a brass monkey–ya gotta give him that.

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How would he know?! He’s not a journalist. He can’t even get a press pass to events.

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Rupert Murdoch is pretty much responsible for the return of Yellow Journalism. He hired Ailes who hired BillO and pretty much turned journalism into a cesspit of inaccuracy, lies, speculation and slander by hiring journalists who had no problem lying, speculating, being inaccurate, and slandering others.

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This is like John Wayne Gacy complaining that clowns are no longer popular at children’s birthday parties.

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O’Reilly said that nowadays, journalists can throw any story out there

Not that he’s a journalist or offered any background on Federal broadcast deregulation and media giant collusion or witnessed the actions he’s describing…perhaps, he was shown a photo or given instructions by a media baron?

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Ah, Ernie Pyle, the guy who (really) won a Pulitzer, as opposed to making vague misleading claims about winning things, the guy who actually reported on what things were like in real war zones, war zones active enough that Pyle was killed by a bullet. Yes, Bill, not everyone in recent years can meet that standard. Sux, dunnit?

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Says one of the figureheads of the network that literally wrote the book on how to bullshit a news story and fool your audience.

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lying doesn’t take balls at all. Particularly this cretin.

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