Many Americans Call O'Reilly a Journalist

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/13/national/w144416D23.DTL

sorry if this a dupe

About 40 percent of Americans say they consider talk show host Bill O'Reilly a journalist — more than would define famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward the same way, according to a poll conducted this spring.


O'Reilly is on the Fox News Channel, offering his often tart conservative opinions, while Woodward has spent a career writing news stories and books.


Only 30 percent of those polled said Woodward was a journalist, while 53 percent said they didn't know, despite the fact that Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate story that ultimately led to President Nixon's resignation in 1974.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Thats sort of like calling bush "president"

Just goes to show you what a negative impact Fox is having on America. And that really sucks.

[Drifter]

2. Or like saying Scientology is a Religion ...

Cheers
Drifter

[CottonBear]

3. Many Americans are uninformed morans. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. That's like calling Dick Cheney human. n/t

[spanone]

5. There are a lot of ignorant people. 40% to be exact.

[SteppingRazor]

6. Many other Americans...

call Michael Moore a journalist. Is he?

Mind you, I don't think O'Reilly is, not by a long shot. He's a commentator. But then, so's Moore. Doesn't make messages any less effective or (in Moore's case) true.

[GiovanniC]

7. O'Reilly and Moore Are Really Two Different Animals

While neither of them are unbiased or impartial, as is usually expected of traditional journalists, at least Michael Moore actually presents researched facts to the American people.

[SteppingRazor]

8. I agree 100%

Just making the point that neither are traditional journalists.

[GiovanniC]

9. Yeah... I Think "Traditional" Is Definitely the Keyword