O'Reilly hack infiltrates GE shareholders meeting

[jefferson_dem]

Political drama at GE shareholders meeting
Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:36am EDT
By Paul Bond

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The hostility between Fox News Channel and MSNBC reached a fever pitch Wednesday when a Fox producer infiltrated the General Electric shareholders meeting.

Just before GE re-elected board members, company brass were hit with questions from shareholders critical of an alleged leftward political slant at the MSNBC cable network, part of the industrial giant's media division, NBC Universal.

But one of those questions came from Jesse Waters, a producer on "The O'Reilly Factor" whose criticisms were cut short when his microphone was cut off, according to several attendees. Waters apparently did not publicly identify himself as a Fox employee.

Waters has built a reputation as an ambush interviewer, specializing in on-the-street confrontations. But this is arguably the boldest move by a Fox newsperson to use the tactic inside their chief rival's tent, as it were.

Television host and commentator Bill O'Reilly, of News Corp.'s Fox News, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann have been involved in a running feud for several years, but the animosity has of late started to envelop other parts of the News Corp. and GE empires.

GE pointed out that Waters had Fox News cameras waiting outside the Orlando, Florida, meeting.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSTRE53M0CO20090423

[ellenfl]

1. could the other rumblings also be faux plants?

. . . or was it just one faux toady. who actually started the questioning?

does murdoch own reuters now? :eyes:

ellen fl

[PatrynXX]

2. Just read about this on imdb.com

Odd place for the story, but okay. At some point they are going to flagrantly break the law. They've already gotten away with stalking a woman. Which is about as bad as it gets, why not a stockholders meeting.