Bill O'Reilly Is on the Ropes: Tries to Defend His Harassment Machine
Yesterday, Bill O’Reilly defended his top henchman, producer Jesse Watters, who is supposedly “the subject of far-left angst, because he goes out and talks to the bad guys.†During his conversation with Amanda Carpenter of the Washington Times  who agreed with everything the Fox News host was saying  O’Reilly defended his “ambush journalism†as a “legitimate brand of journalismâ€Â:
O’REILLY: Now the far-left websites fear greatly the vicious guy Jesse Watters. And Jesse Watters is now the subject of far-left angst, because he goes out and talks to the bad guys. Tell us about that.
This, of course, a legitimate brand of journalism, has been practiced ever since television news was invented in the ’60’s when the bad guys won’t comment, when they run and hide.
Watch it:
Actual journalists disagree with O’Reilly. While he’s right that man-on-the-street interviews have been around for a long time, Fox has taken them to a whole new level. ThinkProgress recently contacted Columbia Journalism Review editor in chief Mike Hoyt  also a victim of an O’Reilly ambush earlier this year  who said that what O’Reilly does is nothing more than “fake journalismâ€Â: