Tom Lace
2004-11-30 23:42:27 UTC
While an infrequent TV watcher, and an even less frequent Fox News watcher,
I did see the segment on 11/28 where O'Reilly mentioned Dylan. It was an
off-handed attempt to be cute and to slime his opposition as part of a
discussion on whether Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw would be missed. O'Reilly--
interrupting his interviewee (as usual) so as to answer his own "question"
in a manner befitting his (or should I make that FoxNews') personal
spin--was spouting off about how the networks just don't get it when it
comes to news (not "juicy" enough was his word) and that not only would the
old guard not be missed, but that their as yet unnamed successors were sure
to be just as bad and out of the (his) mainstream, etc, etc, ad nauseam
vulpes. He then went off on how badly chosen and edited CBS' news segments
were. Suggested more inspiring interviews and opinion statements as a
larger segment of the news show (as if saying, "you know, just the way we so
masterfully do it at Fox"). Knowing that Rather will still be with CBS as a
60 Minutes reporter, O'Reilly then felt compelled to trash 60 Minutes choice
of material, using the upcoming Dylan segment as an example of pointless,
trivial, out of touch use of news programming time, and then added the extra
dig that Dylan probably "hadn't bathed for three weeks" prior to being
granted this undeserved primetime interview.
Irrespective of the differing viewpoints on this newsgroup, this was a clear
insult and an appalling underestimate of the worth of our mutually admired
friend, Bob Dylan.
I did see the segment on 11/28 where O'Reilly mentioned Dylan. It was an
off-handed attempt to be cute and to slime his opposition as part of a
discussion on whether Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw would be missed. O'Reilly--
interrupting his interviewee (as usual) so as to answer his own "question"
in a manner befitting his (or should I make that FoxNews') personal
spin--was spouting off about how the networks just don't get it when it
comes to news (not "juicy" enough was his word) and that not only would the
old guard not be missed, but that their as yet unnamed successors were sure
to be just as bad and out of the (his) mainstream, etc, etc, ad nauseam
vulpes. He then went off on how badly chosen and edited CBS' news segments
were. Suggested more inspiring interviews and opinion statements as a
larger segment of the news show (as if saying, "you know, just the way we so
masterfully do it at Fox"). Knowing that Rather will still be with CBS as a
60 Minutes reporter, O'Reilly then felt compelled to trash 60 Minutes choice
of material, using the upcoming Dylan segment as an example of pointless,
trivial, out of touch use of news programming time, and then added the extra
dig that Dylan probably "hadn't bathed for three weeks" prior to being
granted this undeserved primetime interview.
Irrespective of the differing viewpoints on this newsgroup, this was a clear
insult and an appalling underestimate of the worth of our mutually admired
friend, Bob Dylan.