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Fox News Channel dismisses O’Reilly, its biggest star
NEW YORK (AP)
— Fox News Channel’s
parent company fired Bill
O’Reilly on Wednesday
following an investigation
into harassment allega-
tions, bringing a stunning
end to cable news’ most
popular program and one
that came to define the
bravado of his network O’Reilly
over 20 years.
O’Reilly lost his job on the same
day he was photographed in Rome
shaking the hand of Pope Francis.
The downfall of Fox’s most
popular — and most lucrative
— personality began with an
April 1 report in The New York
Times that five women had been
paid a total of $13 million to keep
quiet about disturbing encounters
with O’Reilly, who continued to
deny any wrongdoing in a statement
hours after he was fired. Dozens of
his show’s advertisers fled within
days, even though O’Reilly’s view-
ership increased.
O’Reilly’s exit came nine
months after his former boss, Fox
News CEO Roger Ailes,
was ousted following
allegations of sexual
harassment.
Following the Times
story, 21st Century
Fox said it had asked
the same law firm that
investigated Ailes to look
into O’Reilly’s behavior.
21st Century Fox leaders
Rupert Murdoch and his
sons Lachlan and James said in a
memo to Fox staff that their deci-
sion to ax O’Reilly came following
an “extensive review” into the
charges.
“I understand how difficult this
has been for many of you,” Rupert
Murdoch said in a memo to Fox
staff.
O’Reilly, denied a chance to say
goodbye to his Fox viewers, did so
via a statement.
“It is tremendously disheartening
that we part ways due to completely
unfounded claims,” he said. “But
that is the unfortunate reality that
many of us in the public eye must
live with today. I will always look
back on my time at Fox with great
pride in the unprecedented success
we achieved and with my deepest
gratitude to all my dedicated
viewers.”
O’Reilly’s dismissal doesn’t
signal any change of direction for
the network: Fox said conservative
pundit Tucker Carlson would move
into O’Reilly’s time slot — the
second time in three months he’s
replaced an exiting prime-time
personality. Carlson, a veteran
who has hosted shows on CNN,
MSNBC and PBS, had taken over
for Megyn Kelly in January when
she announced she was moving
to NBC News. “The Five,” a talk
show with five rotating hosts that
regularly airs at 5 p.m. ET, will
move into the 9 p.m. time slot. Eric
Bolling will host a new show that
airs at 5 p.m. starting next month,
the company said.
O’Reilly, 67, had ruled the “no
spin zone” on television with a
quick smile and an even quicker
temper. He pushed a populist,
conservative-leaning point of view
born from growing up on Long
Island, and was quick to shout down
those who disagreed with him. Fans
loved his willingness to talk back
to power or point out hypocrisy
among liberal politicians or media
members.
O’Reilly and President Donald
Trump are both “crowd-pleasing
showmen who know how to signal
to loyalists in their audience that
they are not taking themselves
quite as seriously as their detractors
are,” said news consultant Andrew
Tyndall. “Half of the fun that they
have with their audiences comes
from watching the outrage that they
manage to provoke.”
“What Rush Limbaugh was to
talk radio, Bill O’Reilly has been to
conservative television,” said Mark
Feldstein, communication professor
at the University of Maryland. “You
can’t underestimate the influence
and the profits that he brought into
Fox News for all these years and
that’s why they hesitated so long in
doing the right thing.”
His show generated $178
million in advertising revenue in
2015, according to Kantar Media.
Thursday Morning
Emirates cuts
U.S. flights,
blaming Trump
security measures
DUBAI, United Arab
Emirates (AP) — Emirates,
the Middle East’s largest
airline, slashed its flights
to the United States by 20
percent Wednesday, blaming
a drop in demand on tougher
U.S. security measures
and Trump administration
attempts to ban travelers
from some Muslim-majority
nations.
The Dubai government-
owned carrier’s decision is
the strongest sign yet that
new measures imposed
on U.S.-bound travelers
from the Mideast could be
taking a financial toll on
fast-growing Gulf carriers
that have expanded rapidly
in the U.S.
Dubai was one of 10
cities in Muslim-majority
countries affected by a
ban on laptops and other
personal electronics in
carry-on luggage aboard
U.S.-bound flights.
Emirates’ hub at Dubai
International Airport, the
world’s third-busiest, is also
a major transit point for
travelers who were affected
by President Donald
Trump’s executive orders
temporarily halting entry to
citizens of six countries.
“The recent actions taken
by the U.S. government
relating to the issuance
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OROVILLE, Calif. (AP)
— Late in the afternoon
of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory
Honea was at the emergency
operations center for the
tallest dam in America when
he overheard someone say
something that stopped him
in his tracks:
“This is not good.”
Over six straight days,
the operators of the Oroville
Dam had said there was
no immediate danger after
water surging down the main
spillway gouged a hole the
size of a football field in the
concrete chute. But now
suddenly they realized that
the dam’s emergency backup
spillway — essentially an
unpaved hillside — was
falling apart, too, and could
unleash a deadly torrent of
water.
Honea reacted by
ordering the immediate
evacuation of nearly
200,000 people
downstream.
In the end, after frantic
action by the dam’s keepers,
catastrophe was averted.
But an Associated Press
examination of state and
federal documents, emails
obtained under public
records requests and
numerous interviews reveal
a sequence of questionable
decisions and missteps,
some of them made years
ago, some of them in the
middle of the crisis.
Among other things,
the dam’s federal and state
overseers overestimated
the durability of the two
spillways. And in public
statements during the
emergency, they failed to
acknowledge — or perhaps
recognize — that while they
were busy dealing with one
crisis, they were creating a
possible new one.
During the darkest hours
of the emergency, the fear
was that if the hillside
collapsed, “it was not
whether people would die,
but how many would die,”
Honea recalled.
State water officials have
defended their handling of
the crisis at the 770-foot-
high dam in the Sierra
Nevada foothills 150 miles
northeast of San Francisco,
saying it was managed as
effectively as possible under
extraordinary circumstances,
including one of the wettest
winters on record.
William Croyle, acting
head of the California
Department of Water
Resources, likened the
spillway failures to a car
getting a flat tire or running
out of oil. “This happened.
Stuff happens,” he said.
The crisis began Feb. 7
with the rupture in the main
spillway.
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BOSTON (AP) — Hours
before his former New
England Patriots teammates
were due to visit the
White House to celebrate
their Super Bowl victory,
prison officials say, Aaron
Hernandez tied one end of
his bedsheet to a window
and the other around his
neck and hanged himself.
In a maximum-security
prison outside Boston, about
an hour from the stadium
where he played alongside
stars like Tom Brady and
Rob Gronkowsi, Hernandez
jammed the door to his
one-man cell lest guards
try to stop him and put an
early end to the life-without-
parole sentence he received
for a 2013 murder.
He was 27.
It was the last act in
the downfall of an athlete
who once seemed to have
everything, including a five-
year $40 million contract
extension, and threw it all
away.
The former NFL star’s
death left friends, family and
his legal team shocked and
in disbelief, searching for an
explanation. Just last Friday,
Hernandez was acquitted in
a separate murder case.
Guards found Hernandez
shortly after 3 a.m.
Wednesday at the state
prison in Shirley, Correction
Department spokesman
Christopher Fallon said. The
former tight end was taken
to a hospital and pronounced
dead about an hour later.
Fallon said he was not
aware of any suicide note
and officials had no reason
to believe Hernandez was
suicidal.
of entry visas, heightened
security vetting, and
restrictions on electronic
devices in aircraft cabins,
have had a direct impact
on consumer interest and
demand for air travel into the
U.S.,” the carrier said in a
statement.
Since Trump has been
in office, there has been
what the airline called “a
significant deterioration in
the booking profiles on all
our U.S. routes, across all
travel segments.”
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Before the advertising boycott,
there was the prospect of even
more: his audience was larger in
the first three months of 2017 than
it has ever been. With a profit center
gone, 21st Century Fox stock fell
almost 1 percent Wednesday in
heavy trading.
O’Reilly’s pugnacious person-
ality wasn’t just an onscreen affec-
tation, with one of the settlements
going to a woman who complained
about being shouted at in the news-
room. O’Reilly was alleged to have
slowed the careers of women who
spurned his advances. One former
Fox personality, Juliet Huddy, said
she pulled away and fell to the
ground when he tried to kiss her,
and he didn’t help her up, the Times
reported.
One harassment case, from a
former producer who said O’Reilly
called her and described sexual
fantasies and appeared to be
masturbating, dated back more than
a decade and was widely reported.
While O’Reilly survived then, the
accumulation of cases outlined in
the Times damaged him much more.
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