Liberty's Blog: Big Boycotting Battles

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Big Boycotting Battles

Bill O'Reilly and The Daily Kos are going after each other tooth and nail. O'Reilly has never been a friend of bloggers and Web based media.

Bill o'Reilly has expressed concern that Web based reporting is a "threat to American Liberty" because the reports are not subject to the same internal scrutiny that the main stream press does.

While in 2001 at an awards presentation he rants against the Main Stream Media, It becomes obvious that he considers anyone that isn't Fox news the enemy.

Obviously, I'm in the vanguard on television of our search and destroy mission about the elite media. And I'm proud of the fact that we have taken these people down -- not on a personal level -- but on a level that's going to open up communications and information to all Americans.
No longer are you going to have five white guys who live in Westchester having a stranglehold on what Americans see on the network news. (applause) For forty years, forty years, five white guys, okay, have determined every night what you are going to see and hear.
The exclusionary bias is staggering. It has nothing to do with political parties. They don't sit around saying how can we advance this person's campaign. What it has to do with (is) regular working people. They don't want to hear from us. They don't want to address our concerns. And they don't want to do it at the Washington Post or the New York Times or the networks.
Where they do (address our concerns) is on talk radio. That's where the people get their say and they get to interact. That is the town meeting of America.

The problem is that Fox news and O'Reilly has become a part of the Mainstream, if to to the right of some of the longer established venues.