] BILL O'REILLY ENCOUNTERS THE NO-WEENIE ZONE ] ] The Blogosphere is buzzing in response to Bill ] O'Reilly's whiny complaints about the Internet. ] The problem with the Net, according to this Man Of The ] People, is that there aren't enough bosses to ] protect the interests of famous people: ] ] Nearly everyday, there's something written on ] the Internet about me that's flat out untrue. And ] I'm not alone. Nearly every famous person in the ] country's under siege. . . . ] ] The reason these net people get away with all ] kinds of stuff is that they work for no one. They put ] stuff up with no restraints. This, of course, is ] dangerous, but it symbolizes what the Internet is ] becoming. ] ] Well boo-freakin'-hoo. O'Reilly's ] schtick is as a tribune of the people against the ] powerful, but when people start writing about him, well, ] it seems they need to be brought into line, pronto. And ] O'Reilly demonstrates that he's no paragon of ] fairness himself by first ignoring that the particular ] report he's complaining about came from a newspaper ] (the San Francisco Chronicle) and not from "the ] Internet," and then somehow managing to tie bad ] comments about his underperforming radio show to child ] molestation. Excuse me? Does this guy have an editor? ] Because it doesn't show. Glenn Reynold's take on the O'Reilly remarks. |