O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, August 21, 2020

Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Bill O'Reilly

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

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0:00.0	Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up.
0:04.4	Standby for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition.
0:07.8	But first, on this Friday, I am not surprised that a few people, relatively speaking, are
0:14.0	watching politics this week.
0:17.0	The Democratic National Convention viewership is down close to 40 percent on the networks
0:24.6	and cable.
0:26.0	The Biden speech will spike things up a little bit, but all in all, the virtual convention
0:33.1	is a disaster as far as TV viewing is concerned.
0:37.4	Now the ultra-liberal MSNBC led the ratings pack, followed by the ultra-liberal CNN.
0:46.9	The rather conservative Fox News Channel averaged only two million viewers, a disaster.
0:54.1	The next week when the Republicans gather, Fox will win big.
0:58.6	The broadcast networks, ABCNBCCBS, suffered the biggest drops, a combined falloff of 42
1:06.6	percent from four weeks ago.
1:10.8	The national news coverage of politics in general is boring.
1:15.6	Is it not?
1:17.2	Commentators on television are afraid of the Twitter mob.
1:23.2	That's the big change.
1:25.0	When I was doing cable news, I was pretty provocative out there, but with just a few exceptions.
1:30.5	Now political commentators play it very safe, and that's why fewer watching.
1:36.9	Now this.
1:39.0	That is the morning O'Reilly Update.
1:41.2	More analysis later on.
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