OUCH! Shepard Smith calls O'Reilly, Hannity & Beck "fascinating, terrific entertainers"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

But didn't O'Reilly win a PEABODY AWARD for his excellence in journalism?

:rofl:

“When a crazy man has walked into a Holocaust museum and shot the security guard, maybe that’s an appropriate time to warn people: you’ve got a crazy person in your life, keep an eye on him,” he said in an interview in his Manhattan office last week.

Mr. Smith said he fully anticipated one result of those comments: the nasty e-mail increased.

“Thousands of them,” Mr. Smith said. “And I know they don’t mean the things they say. I know they don’t hate me and want death on my family.”

What they mostly say, he explained, is: “You don’t belong there.” Mr. Smith paused a moment before adding: “I do belong here.”

Whatever the criticism from outside, Mr. Smith said that, inside Fox, there is no conflict: “Relations in the building are perfect. Roger is 100 percent supportive.” And he said he continues to be “very happy at Fox.”

Of colleagues like Mr. Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, Mr. Smith said, “There’s a lot of money in opinion, and those guys are fascinating, terrific entertainers. This is a news organization. There can’t be a Fox News without news.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/business/media/22smith.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

[NewJeffCT]

1. So if "There can’t be a Fox News without news,"

When are they going to start broadcasting news?

[scheming daemons]

2. "they don’t mean the things they say"

Yes, Shepard, they absolutely do.

Watch your back. Literally and figuratively.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Paraphrasing Voltaire, they are neither fascinating nor terrific nor entertaining.

[spanone]

4. never forget, mr smith works for rupert murdoch

[monmouth]

5. Someone had a "word" with Mr. Smith..LOL....n/t

[get the red out]

6. At least they are paying him well

I would imagine he gets some scary-sounding threats.

I kind of like him and wish he were on a watchable station instead of a militia infomercial channel.

[Winterblues]

7. “There’s a lot of money in opinion,

and in the very same sentence "This is a news organization. There can’t be a Fox News without news.”
Which is it opinion, or news, because it can not be both.

[UTUSN]

8. I was one who jeered at SMITH during Coup 2000 when he was arrested

for assaulting somebody with his car for a parking space. But I gotta say, he is decent.


On another note, what's with all the "Mr"(s) in the NYT?!1 "Mr So" and "Mr Such" --gives an odd tone of fakery to the writing.