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I'm not sure it was the smartest thing to do Tom Send a noteboard - 20/04/2017 09:43:10 PM

As a lawyer, I've seen plenty of clients pay money in settlements that they really didn't "need" to pay, just because it was less expensive and disruptive than a long legal process.

In O'Reilly's case, he's a high-profile personality and it made sense for Fox to settle claims (regardless of their merit) to avoid negative publicity. I'm as close to 100% certain as I can be without seeing the confidential settlements that O'Reilly never admitted any guilt. Because the suits settled, we don't know if they were legitimate.

The only reason I think Fox axed him was because his contract is so ridiculously expensive and big ad buyers stopped buying when information leaked about the extent of settlements. I think Fox acted far too quickly to avoid bad PR because I suspect that after people stopped caring the ad dollars would return if the ratings justified such a return.

That's not exactly "censorship" but it also smacks of bowing in to pressure from groups that are against Fox for ideological reasons and have been stoking the negative media against O'Reilly to begin with.

As for policies in corporations, the policy is no tolerance to sexual harassment, not CLAIMS of sexual harassment. Most companies fight any and all claims until one is successful, just as it should be in any society where people are presumed innocent.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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Fox News gives Bill O'Reilly the sack - 19/04/2017 09:09:02 PM 1051 Views
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My guess is 2 - 20/04/2017 05:29:06 AM 708 Views
Pharmaceuticals are involved - 20/04/2017 06:02:44 AM 764 Views
That is all a load of crap used to avoid accepting that this is about censorship - 20/04/2017 12:09:51 PM 785 Views
Democrats don't own "morality" and run on it the way Republicans do. - 20/04/2017 03:22:06 PM 726 Views
Horse shit - 20/04/2017 04:42:00 PM 874 Views
Gurrrl, stop the spin! - 20/04/2017 05:03:02 PM 712 Views
Also, why are you bringing in 16th century Germans into this conversation? - 20/04/2017 05:23:43 PM 719 Views
The whole things is noth but spin form one end to the other - 21/04/2017 03:57:19 PM 866 Views
Please. You are the only spinner here. Censorship? What a joke of a claim. *NM* - 21/04/2017 05:21:39 PM 490 Views
The Ann Coulter / Berkley thing may be about censorship - 21/04/2017 08:08:35 PM 733 Views
Firing O'Reilly is about censorship? Really? - 20/04/2017 05:53:09 PM 751 Views
I'm not sure it was the smartest thing to do - 20/04/2017 09:43:10 PM 696 Views
Regarding corporate policy - 20/04/2017 11:16:11 PM 787 Views
Find me someone like that - I'll sue the fuck out of their corporation - 21/04/2017 05:10:30 PM 666 Views
The company isn't stupid - 21/04/2017 05:17:19 PM 730 Views
Zero tolerance doesn't leave much room for nuance. - 21/04/2017 05:31:39 PM 831 Views
Your points are pointless - 21/04/2017 04:07:37 PM 919 Views
We are debating different things - 21/04/2017 04:55:18 PM 690 Views
Why did 50 sponsors drop him? - 21/04/2017 05:47:25 PM 800 Views
Okay you are using motivated reasoning, to change the subject - 21/04/2017 02:42:49 AM 636 Views
I agree with you - 21/04/2017 03:10:29 AM 718 Views
So??/ - 21/04/2017 04:13:13 PM 814 Views
Welcome to capitalism, baby. *NM* - 20/04/2017 01:57:25 AM 307 Views
He should write a book "Killing Bill O'Reilly" - 20/04/2017 05:26:32 AM 662 Views
I suspect you are correct as to the target audience for his books - 20/04/2017 01:11:15 PM 760 Views
ISn't that about he the reading level of cable news in general? - 20/04/2017 04:49:11 PM 763 Views
Was he even relevant to the cultural zeitgeist? - 20/04/2017 03:19:40 PM 697 Views
Agreed - 20/04/2017 03:25:42 PM 703 Views
It did have that vibe - 21/04/2017 05:01:51 PM 810 Views
It wasn't the lawsuits that did him in, it was how he treated people. - 28/04/2017 01:53:06 PM 700 Views

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