Bill O'Reilly on Why the Corporate Media is Liberal
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Bill O'Reilly
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🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The corporate media and the most common question that I get is why is it so liberal and |
| 0:07.6 | what is the formula behind that and that's a very good and interesting question. So I've been in the corporate media for 50 years, |
| 0:18.3 | 5-0, and the joke is I started when I was 10 years old you know that kind of thing but now I'm not now |
| 0:24.4 | I'm an independent guy and that's why I'm here on YouTube channel but I've worked for |
| 0:31.6 | CBS and ABC and syndication and Fox News, you know, |
| 0:36.6 | I've seen it all, I know it all. The phrase he's a know it-all my picture is next to that so let me try to explain this |
| 0:48.0 | the media has always been something where very well educated people gravitated toward. |
| 0:57.4 | And at the network level in America, it was Ivy Leaguers, like New York Times, Washington Post, and the newspaper industry, CBS, ABC, |
| 1:07.7 | and it was very, very elite as far as management was concerned. |
| 1:13.0 | So they look at your resume, |
| 1:15.0 | and if you have Nassau County Community College, |
| 1:20.0 | yeah, okay. |
| 1:22.0 | But they're like Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, hey, hey, look at this guy. |
| 1:26.2 | Those people generally speaking, generally speaking, come from liberal homes. |
| 1:34.0 | All right, very well educated homes. |
| 1:36.0 | They have a wider point of view on a lot of things, |
| 1:41.0 | that kind of thing. |
| 1:42.0 | Now obviously, there's a generalization, but it is true. It is true. So when the |
| 1:50.0 | media really started to operate beginning at the Kennedy-Nixon debates. |
| 1:56.0 | That was the first point where television news really rose up and everybody was glued to it. You had the Cronkites and you had the |
| 2:07.6 | Brinkley's and the John Chancellor and Harry Reisner and all of the early guys. |
| 2:16.4 | Most of them were liberal but not crazy liberal, |
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