Bill O’Reilly spent a portion of The O’Reilly Update Monday railing against what he calls the “journalistic dereliction” seen after the coverage of the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
“No American industry is more troubled than journalism media. It is now rife with incompetence and corruption,” said O’Reilly. “A largely destructive force that has betrayed its obligation; to accurately inform Americans about events of importance. The federal raid on the President’s home is an example of journalistic dereliction. Here, we have the most important FBI action in history because of its high worldwide profile and constitutional obligation. You’ve got to follow the rules. Yet the reporting on the event has been shoddy, to say the least.”
After noting, in his estimation, there are only two outcomes to the story, O’Reilly questioned the validity of media reports on the story as questionable at best.
“If you read newspaper columns or watch TV news, you get a steady stream of ideological speculation. ‘Maybe this happened’. ‘Could be that’. ‘An anonymous source told me’. Garbage in, garbage out.
“No matter how preposterous all this ‘might’, ‘maybe’, ‘could have happened’ bilge is, the news agencies know most will forget about it when another inevitable story washes up on the beach. And in the end, it is the American people who are really getting robbed here. In the interest of true freedom, the founders wanted an honest, responsible press. They provided legal protections to ensure the flow of information without government interference. They understood that a free people must have honest information in order to select worthy leaders at the ballot box. But in today’s America, that founding wish has been eviscerated by corporations that control the information business. And there is no maybe about that.”
