That was outrage and condemnation of Hollywood and the left over Harvey Weinstein on this site last week. I wonder what your feeling is now of Fox News seeing it has just been revealed by the New York Times that last January Bill O'Reilly paid a record setting settlement of $32 million to his most recent accuser of sexual harassment and that he had previously paid off 5 other victims. Oh, and following this settlement Fox News, rather than immediately firing O'Reilly as happened to Weinstein, actually gave O'Reilly a 4 year contract extension with an estimated $7 million dollar a year raise. It was not until 2 months later when ad revenues started to drop that O'Reilly was fired. And Fox paid him $25 million in separation upon firing. Quite a story [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment.html?emc=edit_th_20171022&nl=todayshead lines&nlid=50975083"]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment.html?emc=edit_th_20171022&nl=todayshead lines&nlid=50975083[/URL]
Bad day for Fox News as they also plan to retract a story today which ran 2 weeks ago about a guy claiming to be a decorated Navy Seal which turned out to be fiction. Sad part is actual Navy Seals immediately told them the guy was a phoney but they waited 10 days before admitting their error and have now waited another 3 days before issuing a public retraction today.
Bad day for Fox News as they also plan to retract a story today which ran 2 weeks ago about a guy claiming to be a decorated Navy Seal which turned out to be fiction. Sad part is actual Navy Seals immediately told them the guy was a phoney but they waited 10 days before admitting their error and have now waited another 3 days before issuing a public retraction today.
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