{"id":6412,"date":"2017-05-27T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2018-01-09T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:26:35","slug":"matt-cavanagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/matt-cavanagh\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Sentiment on This Campus About the Bill O’Reilly – Fox News Scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fox News at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. Picture by Matt Cavanagh<\/p><\/div>\n

Editor’s Note: Hunter has been recognized as the most ethically and culturally diverse four-year college of the City University New York. WORD reporters were assigned to try and assess how the diversity of opinions of some of the ethical voices on this campus felt about the Billl O’Reilly-Fox News sexual harassment scandal. This is one of those stories.
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\nArticle by Matt Cavanagh, May 27, 2017<\/p>\n

White students randomly interviewed for this article don\u2019t like Bill O\u2019Reilly.\u00a0 One, Kathy Roudabaugh, 26, went so far as to say that she wished that he wasn\u2019t the same species as her.The adolescent education major with a concentration in social studies said that O\u2019Reilly was incredibly racist, sexist and ignorant, adding that he \u201cshould be ashamed\u201d of his actions.<\/p>\n

Interviewed in the third floor sitting area adjacent to the escalators in the West Building, the Clinton Hill resident, who was wearing a tie-dye tank top, black-rimmed glasses, black pants and black and blue sneakers, said that she didn’t believe that O\u2019Reilly respected \u201canyone different\u201d from him. In reference to the increase in O\u2019Reilly\u2019s ratings when news about the sexual harassment scandals at Fox News came out, Kathy described it as a \u201ctrain wreck,\u201d saying that \u201cpeople don\u2019t always want to look away.\u201d\u00a0 Roudabaugh said that it was \u201cscary to know that this is happening with people on TV\u201d and that it makes her wonder how often issues like this occur in television and other industries.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly has been accused of sexual harassment and had \u201cused his clout to seek sexual favors and punish anyone who didn\u2019t acquiesce,\u201d according to a Variety article.<\/a> O’Reilly has to pay out at least $13 million in settlements to women who accused him of sexual harassment. While denying any guilt, he claimed that he had paid the settlements to \u201cprotect his children.\u201d According to an article in The New Yorker,<\/a>\u00a0 O\u2019Reilly said that he had \u201cbecome a target for connivers who are just trying to enrich themselves.\u201d
\nAnd according to the article in Variety, even while there were lots of stories about the scandal, Fox News had recently extended O\u2019Reilly\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n

In spite of the ratings, and because of the loss of advertisers for The O\u2019Reilly Factor and the allegations of sexual harassment, Fox News changed direction and fired O\u2019Reilly. That decision came months after Fox News cut ties with its founder and CEO Roger Ailes who was accused of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

Nathan Dick, 36, wearing a flannel shirt over a T-shirt, green pants and a hat, said that he found it \u201cinteresting\u201d that it took so long for O’Reilly to be fired over sexual harassment allegations, considering that it has been 10 years since he paid off a woman aftera an audio came out supporting her allegations that he sexually harassed her. Sitting on the second floor of the West Building just above the lobby, the Brooklyn resident, who is a non-degree student, said that he recalled seeing O\u2019Reilly on TV when he was younger and didn\u2019t like him even because he was a \u201cknow-it-all\u201d and only got worse when he started working for Fox News.<\/p>\n

On a similar note, Nicholas Chase, a film major wearing a grey T-shirt, sweatpants, glasses, and a red and sneakers, was glad to see O\u2019Reilly fired. Sitting in the cafeteria on the third floor of the West Building, the Queens resident said that O\u2019Reilly had always \u201crubbed him the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matthew Cavanagh can be reached at Matthew.Cavanagh32@myhunter.cuny.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article by Matt Cavanagh
\nWORD reporters of the most ethically and culturally diverse four-year college of the City University New York were assigned to try and assess the diversity of opinions of some of the ethical voices on this campus felt about the Bill O’Reilly-Fox News sexual harassment scandal. This is one of those stories.<\/p>\n

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