Bill OReilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up

[DemocratSinceBirth]

For nearly two decades, Bill O’Reilly has been Fox News’s top asset, building the No. 1 program in cable news for a network that has pulled in billions of dollars in revenues for its parent company, 21st Century Fox.

Behind the scenes, the company has repeatedly stood by Mr. O’Reilly as he faced a series of allegations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate behavior.

An investigation by The New York Times has found a total of five women who have received payouts from either Mr. O’Reilly or the company in exchange for agreeing to not pursue litigation or speak about their accusations against him. The agreements totaled about $13 million.

Two settlements came after the network’s former chairman, Roger Ailes, was dismissed last summer in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, when the company said there was no room for behavior that “disrespects women or contributes to an uncomfortable work environment.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

[Bleacher Creature]

1. He thrives BECAUSE of that behavior. Not in spite of it.

I really believe that his fans wouldn't have it any other way. The fact that he talks down to and propositions women doesn't bother them. In fact, it's the way things used to be. And the racism is just an outward expression of what most of his viewers are already thinking.

Fox News really is the lowest of the lowest.

[UTUSN]

2. X-posting from the other thread: saying it again (over years) :

O'LOOFAH is the stereotypical 1950s White male - repressed and oppressive, at the minimum verbally and emotionally abusive, at the maximum physically abusive, bursting with DENIAL above all and hypocrisy and resentment, starved for approval and attention, vicious bully, adolescent/immature sexual pervert (at his age).

He and the Faux Propaganda Network are in a devil's pact over cash, with only two solutions: Either he tanks in profits for them or he becomes a sexual cipher.

It is gobsmacking that he casts himself as a moral arbiter over everybody else (except his sick peers). He should be in isolation, doing nothing else but facing his own large problems.

[DesertRat]

3. k&r

[Stuart G]

4. About a third of the way down the story,,there are charts..important charts..

Last 2 show Fox News contribution to total profits of the corporation it is part of. Please look at them.
The parent company..…" 21st Century Fox" gets 25 percent of its profit from Fox News. No wonder that corporation will do anything to keep these assholes at the top..And anything includes paying off the claims against Bill O, and Roger Alias who got a 40 million severance package.

Here is a very important paragraph from the article...

His value to the company is enormous. From 2014 through 2016, the show generated more than $446 million in advertising revenues, according to the research firm Kantar Media.