After reading this post...
https://www.sott.net/article/348650-About-time-Bill-O-Reilly-sacked-from-Fox-amid-sexual-harassment-accusations
I found myself wondering, (and posting) the following and thought it might be worth airing in the forum...
As much as Bill has been an iron-filing-in-the-eye level irritant over the years, I wonder if this recent turn of events might have something to do with clear cutting any support Trump may have in the media.
Trump was known for openly endorsing O'Reilly. Maybe this is a way of sending a message to other prominent media personalities in an effort to isolate the U.S. president. -Of nipping in the bud any potential support Trump might find in the media during the next crucial phases of his presidency, (and efforts to keep him under the deep state thumb).
After all... Bill could have been brought down at any time over the last decade or more. That it should happen now seems rather convenient -if you happen to be the establishment.
Having strong personalities in the media capable of swinging popular opinion is dangerous if they might have enough personal integrity (within their own belief systems) to decide to maybe ignore the dictates of the deep state rule book.
-I remember it seeming quite odd when several of the strongest media personalities, names universally recognized among the masses as trusted arbiters of Official Reality, -were all 'retired' around the same time. Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Ted Koppel, Tom Snyder and Tom Brokaw, people with huge name branding that even children would recognize and know meant, "The News", all variously were demoted or left public life and their news pulpits in succession between the mid 90's and early 00's. -It may, of course, have been a perfectly natural progression; they were all old men after all, but maybe there was also a little bit of encouragement. In any case, it changed the way the "News" felt; less of the Trusted Father Figure archetype and more of the... whatever you might call the news today. The aggressive, sensationalist, opinionated irreverence made popular in all forms of current media, in line with the mask-slipping narcissism of the Western empire.
I also found it interesting that Peter Jennings left around the time he began expressing a serious interest in UFOs. I suspected at the time that this might have had something to do with precipitating the sea change in visible news personalities.
I wonder what kind of arm bending is going on behind the scenes?
https://www.sott.net/article/348650-About-time-Bill-O-Reilly-sacked-from-Fox-amid-sexual-harassment-accusations
I found myself wondering, (and posting) the following and thought it might be worth airing in the forum...
As much as Bill has been an iron-filing-in-the-eye level irritant over the years, I wonder if this recent turn of events might have something to do with clear cutting any support Trump may have in the media.
Trump was known for openly endorsing O'Reilly. Maybe this is a way of sending a message to other prominent media personalities in an effort to isolate the U.S. president. -Of nipping in the bud any potential support Trump might find in the media during the next crucial phases of his presidency, (and efforts to keep him under the deep state thumb).
After all... Bill could have been brought down at any time over the last decade or more. That it should happen now seems rather convenient -if you happen to be the establishment.
Having strong personalities in the media capable of swinging popular opinion is dangerous if they might have enough personal integrity (within their own belief systems) to decide to maybe ignore the dictates of the deep state rule book.
-I remember it seeming quite odd when several of the strongest media personalities, names universally recognized among the masses as trusted arbiters of Official Reality, -were all 'retired' around the same time. Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Ted Koppel, Tom Snyder and Tom Brokaw, people with huge name branding that even children would recognize and know meant, "The News", all variously were demoted or left public life and their news pulpits in succession between the mid 90's and early 00's. -It may, of course, have been a perfectly natural progression; they were all old men after all, but maybe there was also a little bit of encouragement. In any case, it changed the way the "News" felt; less of the Trusted Father Figure archetype and more of the... whatever you might call the news today. The aggressive, sensationalist, opinionated irreverence made popular in all forms of current media, in line with the mask-slipping narcissism of the Western empire.
I also found it interesting that Peter Jennings left around the time he began expressing a serious interest in UFOs. I suspected at the time that this might have had something to do with precipitating the sea change in visible news personalities.
I wonder what kind of arm bending is going on behind the scenes?
so funny! Good article and nice to see a little humor thrown in with the crud. Felafel !!??? 
Also made me think about the "role" he's played on Fox as being on the moral high ground, calling out injustice etc. and then actually being the opposite in "real" life. What a contrast, interesting.
