During an appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s podcast Monday, Newsmax host Eric Bolling commented on the news media landscape, and made several admissions.
“There’s no market for news to be both sides,” Bolling argued. “You know who’s not doing it? NewsNation. They tried to be news for both sides, and they’re failing miserably.”
Bolling’s comments came after pondering whether CNN would “get back to it’s roots” with the firing of Brian Stelter and Chris Cuomo. Much has been made recently about the network’s desire to become a straight news agency, rather than “out left the leftists”.
“CNN was news for both sides. Truly fair and balanced. FOX News was never fair and balanced, to be honest, but CNN was a fair and balanced network and then they drifted left and left,” said Bolling, a former FOX News host. “And then MSNBC came so they were all competing for the same pie.”
O’Reilly then went on to say CNN personalities are unlikeable. He added “people hate” Jake Tapper because he’s “unpleasant” and wouldn’t be a good fit for a reported revamped CNN morning show. O’Reilly finished up by claiming “more people watch Good Morning, Pittsburgh than watch CNN’s morning show”.
