] 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.

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