Getting back to Erin Moran, I guess what surprises me is that of the original cast, she was the youngest and they are all still alive except for the dad, Tom Bosley! I still have not seen anything really saying anything bad about Erin except some hint that she might have lived in a trailer park, not that I'm looking and not that I'd be surprised.
Megyn Kelly left, which also cost Fox future revenue.
So did Greta van Sustern. But that was over O'Reilly? Never heard that. Not that I was looking. I liked Greta but not Kelly. I thought Kelly's leaving had something to do with her wanting to get into something else outside the news business. Not that I was following closely.
Sadly, it seems that "harassment" can mean most anything; you can tell a person they have nice hair and rather than it being the compliment it used to be, now someone can claim they felt harassed.
most of his viewership have one foot in the coffin. They re building a new base which doesn't include us.
Perhaps. But as old people die off, others are getting older to replace them. True, they have more and more younger staff, Kennedy, Watters, Tucker, but while I like Tucker, he's kind of a kinder, gentler young O'Reilly, I don't think much of the others. I base my liking someone on the substance they provide, not how old they are. I just wonder, if there is all this sexual harassment going on at Fox, why do they have all these young, pretty girls working there still who seem very happy?
My personal feeling was that O'Reilly brought a comfortable stability to the programming. He was very polished and in general, the network seems more balanced, friendly and less one-sided than some other cable news. But I disagreed with some things O'Reilly would say strongly and could not believe he said them, he seemed an arrogant ass at times who wouldn't let his guests talk and I was getting sick of him being off all the time. And I hated many of his repeat guests, some of which were much too predictable. Ironically, in recent weeks and months, I sometimes found myself thinking that ol' Bill ought to retire and they ought to put Tucker in his slot, and that is just what happened!
Still, part of me will miss Bill and his personal format, and while nothing has been proven, you just can't say that if there is smoke there must be fire because then the opposite would have to be true and there have been too many instances where there were huge bonfires and all the smoke was carefully contained, I think this all goes back to the hold PC has over us, where all you have to do now is accuse someone of something, all of his advertisers were jumping ship out of fear of the backwash of the attack media going after them for supporting his show, and it all came down to dollars--- as it always does.
But there was a lot of good O'Reilly contributed like his books and TV series about the Old West and the Patriots, and Bill helped out a lot of good causes like the Vets. O'Reilly was a loud, abrasive, foul-mouthed guy in his early years who just said what he thought, and there is an irony that in the end due to PC, they fired him for basically the very thing they hired him for--- being controversial and walking to his own beat.
No one should be harassed or threatened (much, but it does happen), but the world is not a nice place and the irony is that years ago when women wanted equality and the ability to get into the game, it now seems that at least with some of them, it is not enough that they merely meet the world head on and fit in, they also want the world to change to suit them.