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To: jlallen who wrote (146810)	5/21/2001 3:08:04 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

JLA, MUST READ...Bill O' Reilly's lays out the new media's future! Here's the full transcript of Fox newsman Bill O'Reilly's address at "Talkers Magazine's" New Media Seminar, May 19, 2001: All right. I know it's been a long evening and I'm going to keep my remarks short, pithy -- as is my want. I wouldn't be here if not for talk radio. Obviously "The O'Reilly Factor" is the first television version of a free form talk radio. There's no question about it. I can take some credit for developing the program but I obviously stole the concept from you guys. I appreciate that very much. The second thing is; I could not have become the success that we've become if not for the support of talk radio. As Blanquita (Cullum) accurately mentioned, when my book came out, I couldn't get on the "Today Show" -- I still haven't been on the "Today Show" -- or any of the network venues at all. And that's what I want to talk to you about tonight. The dramatic change that we're seeing, not only in television but also in radio and in the print media, is, I think, a phenomenon that hasn't been fully explored. And it's going to influence everybody in this room if you make your living in communications. The old guard is dead. They're done. They're finished. It's not going to come back. And, if any of you saw my interview with Dan Rather this week....(Applause), that was pretty much the signature of their decline. And I respect Mr. Rather. And I gave him half of my program to explain how he sees his role as the managing editor and anchorman of CBS News. You can make your own determination as to how well he handled himself, I'm not going to comment on it. But I will tell you that there's a fundamental change going on. Peter Jennings gave an address on Tuesday at the Fred Friendly award he got at Quinnipiac College. And he said to all of the network pinheads (laughter), um -- the reason that they're in decline is that they're all the same and that they're all politically correct and that the corporate structure they have to work under has strangled their creativity and it's almost all over. And this is what Peter Jennings said. And then he looked at me in the audience -- you know, I'm sitting there with a fork in my mouth -- and he said, "Bill O'Reilly used to work for us and he's not politically correct and look what's happened to him." And I thought Andrew Hayward was going to have a heart attack right there (laughter). He's the president of CBS News. Now, this is heady stuff for me. Obviously, I'm in the vanguard on television of our search and destroy mission about the elite media. And I'm proud of the fact that we have taken these people down -- not on a personal level -- but on a level that's going to open up communications and information to all Americans. No longer are you going to have five white guys who live in Westchester having a stranglehold on what Americans see on the network news. (applause) For forty years, forty years, five white guys, okay, have determined every night what you are going to see and hear. The exclusionary bias is staggering. It has nothing to do with political parties. They don't sit around saying how can we advance this person's campaign. What it has to do with (is) regular working people. They don't want to hear from us. They don't want to address our concerns. And they don't want to do it at the Washington Post or the New York Times or the networks. Where they do (address our concerns) is on talk radio. That's where the people get their say and they get to interact. That is the town meeting of America. Now, do you see that written about in the elite media? Do you see it written about in the New York Times? Do you see it written about in the Boston Globe or the Los Angeles Times? No you do not. They do not cover you people. They ignore you people. That is at their peril. That is at their peril. They started to ignore me and the Fox News Channel for two, three years. Now we are just killing them. We are killing them. It's a mandate that is not even questionable. So now I'm on the cover of TV Guide in three weeks. Now the New York Times Magazine is in on all of this. And that's fine. I don't have any resentment about it. But I know that there's a sea change, it's a tremendous change in this country. And the leaders of this country in the next twenty years are going to be people who have to engage you, who have to engage me. No longer are they going to be able to do the Hillary dance. Hillary is the last, allright? Hillary did the dance -- "I'm not going to talk to anybody. I'm going to cheat, I'm going to steal. I'm going to get want I want." She won. That's the end, allright? From now on they're going to have to come through us. They're going to have to come through us. And I don't know about you, but I'm going to get tougher. I'm going to get mean. I'm going to get sharper....(rousing applause). I'm going to give these people no quarter. I don't want to have lunch with them. I don't want to go to the parties with them. I don't want to hang out with Barbara Walters. Allright? And the reason is because those people are not looking out for us -- and for the people we represent. They're looking out for themselves. And we see it time and time and time again. And every night on "The Factor" we pound them, we pound them. We respect the fact that they come in. And the ones that don't we're going to have a new, a new -- I'm going to think up something -- and we're going to have their pictures right across the screen. (laughter) We are going to deliver body blows to them time after time after time. I don't care if they're Democrat. I don't care if they're Republican. I don't care who they are, allright? I'm going to watch them. I'm going to hold them accountable for what they do, not what they say. I don't care what they say. It's how they comport themselves, how they conduct themselves, allright? So I'm on a jihad here. I am on a mission. I'm going to use you. I am going to call you. My next book comes out in the fall -- you'll be seeing me, you'll be sick of me. I'm sick of me. (laughter) But I am on a mission. And I am going to hold these S.O.B.'s accountable for what they do. They want power in this country? They come through us. Because we speak for the people. We're the only ones who do. The others are more interested in playing with each other, accumulating power, schmoozing. It's not what we're about here. We talk to the real folks. We talk to the folks who are getting hurt by the gas prices, who are getting hurt by the punitive taxes. That's what we do. Every day, that's what we do. They don't care about this. They don't care about it, allright? To them it's power, it's money, it's presitge. They're dying, thank God. Thank you very much for this award. newsmax.com