Bill O'Reilly, Fly Guy

[roguevalley]

I don't know if this has been posted but here is bill o in his youth, selling himself to another station for a job.



For a bigger version and all the gory details, go here and enjoy:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0301061billo1.html

Bill O'Reilly, Big Pimpin'

At 26, the future Fox News star just wanted out of Scranton

MARCH 1--The year was 1975 and Bill O'Reilly was a broadcast TV rookie itching to move to a larger market from Scranton, Pennsylvania. O'Reilly, then 26, worked as the "Action Consumer" troubleshooter for WNEP, the ABC affiliate, and was seeking to decamp to Atlanta or Miami. He apparently had outgrown the Action 16 news team, which operated from offices at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport. So O'Reilly dashed off a letter to a producer at a Washington, D.C. station seeking career advice and possible job leads. "I've done pretty well here," he wrote, "and am confident I can handle myself." Along with reporting chores, O'Reilly also handled news promotion for the station, noting that "the extra bread comes in handy."

Snip!