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Fox News’s Megyn Kelly crosses key line on San Francisco killing
Fox News’s Megyn Kelly crosses key line on San Francisco killingErik Wemple
By Erik Wemple July 10
Journalistic line-crossing received scrutiny on last night’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor.” Bernard Goldberg, a regular on the program, criticized a segment that had aired the previous night on the program, as Jesse Watters visited San Francisco with an ambushing camera crew seeking answers from city officials on whether their failures contributed to the killing of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle, allegedly at the hands of a Mexican laborer who had been deported five times. Watters spoke at an open session of the San Francisco board of supervisors and cornered a spokeswoman for Mayor Ed Lee, a series of encounters praised on this blog.
{More: Fox News’s Jesse Watters shows ambush journalism at its best}
Goldberg differed on the matter: “It’s wrong,” said Goldberg in a discussion with O’Reilly. “It’s just as wrong as if MSNBC sent somebody out to a City Council some place in America and advocated for something that you and I don’t agree with. We would say what a bunch of clowns. You just don’t do that. That crosses the line. And, look, I will tell you this. I was sitting at home watching that, sitting on my couch and I was embarrassed watching it.”
Credit “The O’Reilly Factor” with allowing some ombudsmanesque criticism. There’s little question that Watters did some grandstanding in California, but the Steinle killing is a outrage that demands genuine accountability from elected leaders — a great time to roll out the ambush. Of all the lines that “The O’Reilly Factor” crosses, Watters’s San Francisco trip figures among the least concerning. Consider that O’Reilly constantly plugs his books on air, sometimes subordinating the program’s editorial content to this self-interested mission. Consider that he’s now pushing a bill to punish undocumented immigrants who had been deported (O’Reilly apprised viewers of his venture into activism). And finally, consider that O’Reilly on various platforms has been caught telling falsehoods about his reportorial exploits of yore. Now there’s a line.
By Erik Wemple July 10
Journalistic line-crossing received scrutiny on last night’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor.” Bernard Goldberg, a regular on the program, criticized a segment that had aired the previous night on the program, as Jesse Watters visited San Francisco with an ambushing camera crew seeking answers from city officials on whether their failures contributed to the killing of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle, allegedly at the hands of a Mexican laborer who had been deported five times. Watters spoke at an open session of the San Francisco board of supervisors and cornered a spokeswoman for Mayor Ed Lee, a series of encounters praised on this blog.
{More: Fox News’s Jesse Watters shows ambush journalism at its best}
Goldberg differed on the matter: “It’s wrong,” said Goldberg in a discussion with O’Reilly. “It’s just as wrong as if MSNBC sent somebody out to a City Council some place in America and advocated for something that you and I don’t agree with. We would say what a bunch of clowns. You just don’t do that. That crosses the line. And, look, I will tell you this. I was sitting at home watching that, sitting on my couch and I was embarrassed watching it.”
Credit “The O’Reilly Factor” with allowing some ombudsmanesque criticism. There’s little question that Watters did some grandstanding in California, but the Steinle killing is a outrage that demands genuine accountability from elected leaders — a great time to roll out the ambush. Of all the lines that “The O’Reilly Factor” crosses, Watters’s San Francisco trip figures among the least concerning. Consider that O’Reilly constantly plugs his books on air, sometimes subordinating the program’s editorial content to this self-interested mission. Consider that he’s now pushing a bill to punish undocumented immigrants who had been deported (O’Reilly apprised viewers of his venture into activism). And finally, consider that O’Reilly on various platforms has been caught telling falsehoods about his reportorial exploits of yore. Now there’s a line.
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