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An Inherent Conflict of Interest
There's apparently an inherent conflict of interest between covering Trump and believing in equal rights
Bill O’Reilly demands the media stop assigning feminists to cover Trump:
“His resume goes against that ideology!”
In the “Talking Points Memo” segment of The O’Reilly Factor Tuesday evening, host Bill O’Reilly criticized The New York Times for allowing a feminist to write a story about Donald Trump, claiming that because “Donald Trump’s resume goes against that ideology,” there’s an inherent conflict of interest.
O’Reilly claimed that the article “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private” had been thoroughly debunked because one of the women featured in it, Rowanne Brewer, later said that while her words were accurately quoted, they were presented in a way that didn’t capture her tone. (Which, of course, may very well be true — but it’s also true that The Times’ reporters accurately recounted her story, which irrespective of how she feels about the experience, speaks volumes about Trump’s feelings about women.) Moreover, he said that the “discrediting” of the story ” signals that it will be very difficult to get the truth when Donald Trump is involved.”
“The Times assigned reporters Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey to write the story,” O’Reilly continued. “Mr. Barbaro has written a number of anti-Trump tweets, which should have disqualified him from writing about Donald Trump. "Ms. Twohey is an excellent reporter with a great resume, but she is a feminist.”
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"Ms. Twohey is an excellent reporter with a great resume, but she is a feminist.”
?????
So, this person is an excellent reporter, but she's a feminist? Does this guy ever understand what he is saying?
Let's carry that thought out ................. "This person is an excellent reporter with a great resume, but she (he) is a __________________. ( fill in the blank with something like black, Muslim, homosexual, etc.)
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I guess if we were to follow Mr O'Reilly's argument to it's logical end point, he would have to recuse himself from "covering" or commenting on Secretary Clinton.
If you are going to worry about something, I would suggest this:
The inherent danger of restricting press coverage of a public figure to only those reporters who agree with him.
Think about it.
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The inherent danger of restricting press coverage of a public figure to only those reporters who agree with him.
Of course, but how about taking it one step further? Berlusconi in Italy actually owned the media outlets, so he hired the reporters that covered him before and during his campaign and controlled what was said about him. Wow!
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It's funny, people decry the bias of a reporter who has a different ideology than a candidate, and ignore the bias that a reporter with the same ideology as trump would have.
If you insist on reporters without bias, nothing will ever be written,
We all have biases. Accept the fact and just demand that reporting be accurate.
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Re: An Inherent Conflict of Interest
Accuracy in reporting seems to be an alien concept to Fox 'news' reporters, contributors, experts, on air personalities, and network executives. O'Reilly has proven to be one of the prime examples of ignorance of factual reporting. Because he has had success in bringing viewership to the network through his diatribes, his factual distortions in ghost written 'nonfiction' novels, and ranting put downs of any logical person that dares question the veracity of his positions, O'Reilly has managed to exceed the network's disregard for facts and boosted, in his own mind, his manifested immunity to criticism.
i.e.: he's pretty much a pompous a$$hole.
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Censorship O'Reilly style ! 
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