NEW BOOK: MURDOCH 'DESPISES' BILL O'REILLY
Monday, December 1 2008
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It turns out that Rupert Murdoch doesn't think much of his biggest star -- Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. In Michael Wolff's The Man Who Owns the News, being published today (Monday), Murdoch is described as sometimes being embarrassed at times by the content of Fox News. In particular, he "absolutely despises" O'Reilly, Wolff claims. Moreover, he says, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, also "loathes" O'Reilly. "Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other." Wolff further claims that Murdoch's decision to buy the Wall Street Journal was partly influenced by a desire to "trade the illiberal, the belligerent, the vulgar, the loud, the menacing, the unsubtle -- for the better-heeled, the more magnanimous, the further nuanced."
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