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The Man Who Would Not Shut Up
Marvin Kitman
The Rise of Bill O'Reilly
St. Martin's Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
336 pages ISBN: 0312314353 EAN: 9780312314354 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the wake of the loss of TV's top anchormen, Tom Brokaw,
Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Ted Koppel, a seismic shift
has occurred in broadcast news. A revolution had already
been taking place on the Fox News Channel about the way news
was being presented on TV. Bill O'Reilly has been the
spearhead in that radical movement, masterminded by Roger
Ailes, founding father of Fox News.
To some, O’Reilly is a semi-demented cable TV talk show
host, who can be an obnoxious, insufferable, opinionated,
rude loudmouth whose views, the kinder ones say, are typical
right wing drivel. But there is much more to O’Reilly than
what meets eye. O'Reilly is the paradigm of idosyncrasy in
television journalism. On the rough road to the top, O'Reilly learned how to give
the public what it wants and thinks it needs. From his early
education at the hands of nuns to an advanced degree in
Public Policy from Harvard, from working at local
televisions stations and rising through the ranks to network
news, O’Reilly spent nearly twenty-five years learning his
craft before he became an overnight star at Fox News. In this very intimate look at the man and what matters to
him, veteran media critic Marvin Kitman explores all the
experiences that led to the making of Bill O’Reilly—a
non-conformist in a business that demands conformity as the
price of success and a man who has risen to the top by not
playing by the rules of broadcast news. Kitman claims that
O'Reilly is not a kneejerk conservative, but an
"independent" freethinker with a mind of his own, and he
believes what journalism needs is more Bill O’Reillys. Not
screamers, the blowhards like the current O’Reilly clones
rushed on the air since his success, but trained
journalists, reporting the news and telling us why, in their
opinion, the world is a crazy place. Supported by twenty-nine interviews with Bill O’Reilly,
Marvin Kitman pulls no punches in this powerful and
hard-hitting biography that will provoke both "Spinheads"
and "Anti-Spinheads."
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