Bill O’Reilly’s political legacy
The most-watched presenter in cable news was forced out of Fox News on April 19th
Mr O’Reilly was television’s most successful purveyor of fake news long before there was a name for it.
.. But his enduring political legacy, shared with Mr Ailes, will be the corrosion of public discourse in America. In 2004 Media Matters for America, an activist group, awarded Mr O’Reilly its inaugural “Misinformer of the Year” award (for which he beat out fellow Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity). In 2005 Stephen Colbert, a comedian, created a show for “Comedy Central” based almost entirely on Mr O’Reilly’s
.. calling “Black Lives Matter”, the activist movement against police killings of black Americans, a “hate America group”, or accusing the left of trying to use immigration to destroy “traditional America”—reached a sympathetic audience of several million, mostly white, mostly older Americans.