The Man Who Would Not Shut Up The Rise of Bill O'Reilly

by Kitman, Marvin

• ISBN13: 9780312385866
• ISBN10: 0312385862
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-28
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

To some, Bill O'Reilly is a semi-demented cable TV talk show host who can be an obnoxious, insufferable, opinionated, rude loudmouth whose views, the kinder ones say, are typical right-wing drivel. But there is much more to O'Reilly than what meets the eye. O'Reilly is the paradigm of diosyncrasy in television journalism.

Author Biography

Marvin Kitman was the TV/media critic of Newsday for thirty-five years, and is the author of eight previous books. He lives in northern New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
The Making of an O'Reilly
In the Beginning	p. 11
Man About Miami	p. 54
The Wayward Pressman	p. 67
The Voice of Anthracite Country	p. 76
On the Road	p. 85
New York, New York	p. 93
Cry for Me, Argentina	p. 102
The Boston Massacres	p. 106
O'Reilly Finds His Voice	p. 115
Spencer	p. 123
Taking Out the Trash	p. 133
Final Edition	p. 147
Tall Man on Campus	p. 150
The Factor Factor
Roger Discovers Gold	p. 163
A Star Is Reborn	p. 168
Cracking the O'Reilly Code	p. 174
The Meltdown
Are They Out to Get Him?	p. 207
O'Reilly Goes to War	p. 218
Suits Pressed While You Wait	p. 231
What Was He Thinking?	p. 247
The Last Hurrah
The Future Lies Ahead	p. 261
What Say You?
The New Journalism	p. 269
Afterword	p. 278
Acknowledgments	p. 281
Notes & Sources	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 306
Index	p. 308
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