Posted on 06/20/2017 8:29:06 PM PDT by huldah1776
Robert Herring, CEO of the One America News Network, announced Tuesday that his network was pulling a lucrative job offer made to former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
"We are pulling offer to @billoreilly, it could have paid him more than he made at Fox. We wish him luck. #OANN" the OANN CEO tweeted.
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Herring confirmed the offer to Mediaite and told them he "wanted to move on" after O'Reilly and his agent failed to contact the network following discussions O'Reilly and OANN regarding his joining the network, according to a report.
Herring said the offer would "have been very good," possibly more than the roughly $25 million he was reportedly contracted for with Fox News.
Where does One America get its money? Do they run commercials? I haven’t seen any ads on their site.
you’re lucky you don’t have a tv. It’s a good way to get the AIDS
Thank you, Lord.
Who’d he give the falafel treatment to over there?
O’Reilly’s bloviating ego got in the way. Billy-Oh thinks he is going to start his own network. He will end up like Glenn Beck, playing to the crickets. OAN would have been a good fit for both, boosting both their fortunes.
Excellent move by OANN ..... I think you guys / gals ... have an All-Star Team right now.
I watch OANN and love it! They live up to their mission; - excellent reporting of the facts without all peanut brain opinions of people that don’t matter anyway!
Hiring O’Reilly would have been a disaster!
Boy are you confused
Don’t think O’Reilly is motivated by money. Wants control and independence.
Agreed. I was busy typing my post (9) while you posted your response.
So soon? They couldn’t have been negotiating for very long.
I guess somebody with influence at OAN was feeling disrespected.
They run a fair amount of commercials. Established companies. I really like them. I leave it on my televisions all the time just to tell the mainstream media what I think of their crap.
“it could have paid him more than he made at Fox.”
Horsecrap.
Good points. Agree. OAN. Better off.
Yes, they run ads. They are picking up new sponsors all the time. For a while they didn’t have any though.
If this news is true it’s more proof that O’Reily has rocks in his head.
The Daily Ledger is everything O’Reilly’s show should have been.
O’Reily wouldn’t have been a good fit at OAN. He’s too full of himself and thinks everything’s all about him. Like the entire world is waiting to hear what HE has to say about things. Ha, who made him media Pope? OAN probably didn’t agree to let him constantly hock his books either.
For the time being, OAN is a bunch of unknown personalities (which is OK), but adding some star power would help expand its market share, and also diminish the standing of the Lamestream outlets more rapidly.
The more aggressive OAN is at enhancing its profile, the faster it will grow, because it has a very decent conservative (or at least non-liberal) thing going so far.
I'd be happy to settle for something even remotely resembling a balanced news outlet. It wouldn't have to be overtly conservative—just overtly pro-America and staunchly patriotic.
George Washington was doubtless right when he observed that political parties:
“are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”Washington went on to argue:
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”That's some pretty shrewd insight for a Founder who wasn't even considered an intellectual giant.
If we're honest about it, we should acknowledge that this can be true of either major party—Republicans or Democrats. I really do think that an era of post-partisan politics could be upon us, due to the Trump phenomenon. In any event, I certainly hope such attitudes begin to be more commonplace.
That's odd- they didn't run commercials when they first started, and for a good while afterwards. I can't remember seeing any, but I haven't watched them very much lately.
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