Of Agendas, Fetishes and Crusades

As Bill O'Reilly rails against the New York Times for what he calls excessive coverage of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, CJR Daily documents "Twenty-five separate shows during which O'Reilly covered the story of one misguided college professor as though it were the Watergate hearings."--CURSOR

By Brian Montopoli

For more than a year, Bill O'Reilly has been railing against the New York Times for what he believes is its excessive coverage of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. Back on May 27, 2004, he said, "some press people are using the terrible Abu Ghraib prison scandal as a political hammer. Some people don't see that as a bad thing, but I do. I think the story should be reported accurately and aggressively, but not used by the media to advance an agenda." (Emphasis added.)