Bill O'Reilly insists he is dealing only with the truth. When his guests disagree with him, he shouts at them, calls them liars, talks over them, and behaves like a schoolyard bully.
He has been an influence on the most worrying trend in the field of news: The polarization of opinion, the elevation of emotional temperature, the predictability of two of the leading cable news channels.
O'Reilly represents a worrisome attention shift in the minds of Americans. More and more of us are not interested in substance.
People aren't in the habit of searching the dial.
P.J. O'Rourke:
