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From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

So, Bill O'Reilly is gone. The host of Cable's most popular

show for 16 years out at Fox News in the wake of that growing sexual harassment scandal.

Of course, this comes after the revelation earlier this month that O'Reilly and 21st Century Fox

had paid out $13 million in settlements

to five women who had accused him of sexual harassment and or verbal abuse.

One word, more than 50 companies have stopped advertising on the O'Reilly factory.

And with that news comes a confession, not his, of course, hours. For 16 years, we at On the Media

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