Is it right to say that Roger Ebert took Bill OReillys words too seriously?”
Bill O’Reilly has been brought low by the same process that afflicted Jerry Springer. Once respected journalists, they sold their souls for higher ratings, and follow their siren song. Springer is honest about it: “I’m going to Hell for what I do, and I know it,” he’s likes to say. O’Reilly insists he is dealing only with the truth. When his guests disagree with him, he shouts at them, calls them liars, talks over them, and behaves like a schoolyard bully. I am not interested in discussing O’Reilly’s politics here. That would open a hornet’s nest. I am more concerned about the danger he and others like him represent to a civil and peaceful society. He sets a harmful example of acceptable public behavior. He has been an influence on the most worrying trend in the field of news: The polarization of opinion, the elevation of emotional temperature, the predictability of two of the leading cable news channels. A majority of cable news viewers now get their news slanted one way or the other
Roger Ebert recently wrote a scathing article about the preponderance of angry men shouting the news at us. One of these angry men was Bill O’reilly. Ebert bought up a possible connection between the murder of the abortion doctor & Bill O’reilly who constantly called the dr. a baby killer. Its an interesting article about how our news is becoming more slanted. No I don’t believe Roger Ebert is overreacting. Words can have power.
