Score one for real journalists.
Bill O’Reilly does this thing on his show where he sends out one of his producers — from what I have seen and from my experience sharing air with many of these types, they are all the lowest forms of humans, grubby weasels with no ethics and a thirst for fame alone — to ambush someone whom O’Reilly has labeled an enemy. The “interviews” that proceed from the sabotage are stupid, uninformative attack pieces that are further from real journalism than anything made up by Stephen Glass or Jayson Blair.
In the above clip, an O’Reilly Factor producer named (I shit you not) Porter Barry tries to ambush Bill Moyers, a frequent target of O’Reilly’s due to Moyers’ so-called liberal agenda (a.k.a he doesn’t fall in lockstep with the Bush administration and asks real questions) and failure to accept an invitation to appear on The Factor. Moyers gives Barry the what for and makes him look like the sniveling grub that he is. Real journalists then chase Barry down and treat him to an ambush-style interview. Great stuff.
Thanks to The UpTake for the video.
Tags: Bill Moyers, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Porter Barry, The Uptake