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03-28-2002, 04:01 PM
Guess who is going to be on this show? ;)
O'Reilly Factor (http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/)
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An O'Reilly Factor Special: The Corruption of the American Child
A special hour-long look at the entertainment industry's powerful influence on children today
TONIGHT at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the FOX network!
An O'Reilly Factor Special: The Corruption of the American Child (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48193,00.html)
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Thursday, March 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the FOX network.
Hosted by Bill O'Reilly
To order a videotape of the special click here .
Don't miss the second in a series of four specials created especially for the FOX network and hosted by FOX News anchor Bill O’Reilly, The Corruption of the American Child: An O'Reilly Factor Special.
The Corruption of the American Child is a thought-provoking special that examines the effects of the entertainment industry on today's kids. The show provides examples of content from television, the Internet, recorded music and other entertainment outlets that are influencing today’s children. Some may be shocked to see and hear what today's youth are exposed to on a daily basis — salacious dress, obscene lyrics, violent bullying and sexual promiscuity.
Both sides of the issue are explored in this compelling one-hour special as O'Reilly talks to key figures in the entertainment industry. Interviewees include: Russell Simmons, Chairman, DEF Jam Records, Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America, Damon Dash, rap music producer, CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records, rap music group Insane Clown Posse, Linda McMahon, Co-CEO, World Wrestling Federation, shock rocker Marilyn Manson and "shock jocks" Opie and Anthony. In his trademark style, O'Reilly asks all those interviewed the tough questions about America’s responsibility to her children and parental responsibilities.
Bill O'Reilly, who was recently dubbed "the new king of cable news" by TV Guide, is the anchor of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, which debuted five years ago when the network was launched. O'Reilly is also a two-time New York Times best-selling author whose current book, The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America has been on The New York Times bestseller list for more than three months. His book, The O'Reilly Factor has just been published in paperback.
News Day Article (http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-p2toptv2643097mar28.story?coll=ny%2Dtelevision%2Dh eadlines)
The Whys of a World Rated X
O'Reilly goes on (and after) the offensive for kids
By Noel Holston
STAFF WRITER. E-mail Noel Holston at noel.holston@ newsday.com.
March 28, 2002
REVIEW
AN O'REILLY FACTOR SPECIAL: THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN CHILD. Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly gets an hour of Fox broadcast time to vent his anger at the entertainment industry. Airs tonight at 9 on WNYW/5.
THERE'S AN unexpected shard of social commentary embedded in the 1979 fantasy-thriller "Time After Time." Jack the Ripper has stolen H.G. Wells' time machine and escaped from Victorian England to modern-day America. Sitting in a hotel room, he turns on the TV and clicks through the channels, encountering an ungodly assortment of mayhem and vulgarity - war carnage, gangster sadism, merrily destructive cartoons. The Ripper smiles contentedly and says, in effect, "I'm home."
If Bill O'Reilly's latest prime-time special for Fox isn't as jolting as that, it's only because we've had two additional decades of relentless conditioning, with movies, TV, radio and the Internet escalating the ugliness ever higher. That the barrage of images O'Reilly presents seems relatively tame is a commentary in itself.
Not that he leaves it at that. Pontificating is his passion, and he doesn't hold back in "The Corruption of the American Child." He begins with a downright radical declaration for a guy whose detractors would like to dismiss as a right-wing ideologue: "The free-enterprise system is robbing children of their childhood." And O'Reilly's indignation remains unmistakable throughout the hour, whether he's venting directly about the media assault on impressionable young minds or attempting to hold entertainment- industry moguls and mouthpieces' feet to the fire.
In response from the latter, he gets evasions, excuses, rationalizations, even sneering indifference.
"Every enterprise has its downside, but I think we're making real progress," says Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti.
"Your rigid attitude about what we can do culturally is not, for me, a guideline to what I should do," says Russell Simmons, founder of the rap-music label Def Jam Records.
"We're artists," says Greg "Opie" Hughes, half of WNEW/102.7 FM's smutty "Opie and Anthony" afternoon show.
"I don't think it's the responsibility of a programmer to try to be inside the home," says World Wrestling Federation chief executive Linda McMahon.
"If those two nerds at Columbine would have had clown makeup on...I wouldn't have felt bad about it at all," says Violent J of the face-painting "rage rock" group Insane Clown Posse. " 'Cause I honestly believe that ain't got nothing to do [with it], even if they were our biggest fans. People are insane. You know what I mean? That's just it. People are on their own."
No one can say O'Reilly isn't an equal-opportunity castigator. He includes scenes from Fox series such as "Dark Angel" in a montage of sexual activity and violence to illustrate his observation that "all the networks present adult situations to children." There's no question that his special will make a lot of viewers' blood boil. He's hardly alone in feeling that our culture is getting coarser and that children need to be protected.
The shortcoming of "The Corruption of the American Child" is that it's almost entirely about feeling. Except in an especially disturbing segment about kids accessing hard-core porn on the Internet, O'Reilly presents little more than his own uneasiness as evidence that the entertainment media is despoiling young lives. He offers no research showing that sneaking into "American Pie" turns 12-year-old boys into sex addicts or that kids who start using major-league swear words when they're 8 are less likely to become effective firefighters, schoolteachers or Wall Street traders.
Even if we share his gut instinct that the entertainment industry is at best indifferent to children's welfare, enticing them to come frolic in the sewer, we still deserve a real journalistic effort from the king of cable news, not just a rant.
E-mail Noel Holston at noel.holston@ newsday.com.
TV Guide Online (http://www.tvguide.com/tv/family/#K)
Corruption of the American Child: An 'O'Reilly Factor' Special
FOX 9 pm/ET
It's 9 pm/ET (8 Central and Mountain times). Do you know what your children are watching? Or listening to? Bill O'Reilly will fill you in on some of their options, and it isn't pretty. It's "see all evil," O'Reilly pronounces in his typical no-holds-barred fashion. "Your kids are watching appalling things." Most parents already know that, of course, but this survey of the entertainment industry's nether reaches can be a sobering reminder. O'Reilly can be credited for not exempting his own network from his rogues' gallery of "rage rappers," shock jocks, sex-charged TV shows and R-rated movies that youngsters seem to have little difficulty finding. O'Reilly manages to get a number of his targets to sit down with him to face his grilling ("You don't feel any guilt at all?"), and the hour also features plenty of rough examples of "appalling things" (there's plenty of quick cutting and bleeping, but it's best that young children not watch). In fact, some might consider the show titillating in its own right, but that's another matter. — PD
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Article on dcrtv.com (http://www.geocities.com/~dcrtv/)
O'Reilly Attacks O&A - 3/28 - Tonight at 9 on Fox (Channels 5 and 45), Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly (right) takes a look at how the entertainment industry is contributing to "the corruption of the American child." Included in his focus: WJFK-FM's afternoon duo of "Opie And Anthony." He'll also look at hip-hop and metal music and the WWF. But Bill doesn't get around to shining his light of righteousness on Fox News (!) contributor and Chicago radio shock jock Mancow Muller, who recently received $21K in FCC fines for airing sexually explicit material during morning drive. Hmmm.....
O'Reilly Factor (http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/)
http://www.foxnews.com/images/50695/1_14_132_fea_oreilly_corrupt.jpg (http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/)
An O'Reilly Factor Special: The Corruption of the American Child
A special hour-long look at the entertainment industry's powerful influence on children today
TONIGHT at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the FOX network!
An O'Reilly Factor Special: The Corruption of the American Child (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48193,00.html)
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Thursday, March 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the FOX network.
Hosted by Bill O'Reilly
To order a videotape of the special click here .
Don't miss the second in a series of four specials created especially for the FOX network and hosted by FOX News anchor Bill O’Reilly, The Corruption of the American Child: An O'Reilly Factor Special.
The Corruption of the American Child is a thought-provoking special that examines the effects of the entertainment industry on today's kids. The show provides examples of content from television, the Internet, recorded music and other entertainment outlets that are influencing today’s children. Some may be shocked to see and hear what today's youth are exposed to on a daily basis — salacious dress, obscene lyrics, violent bullying and sexual promiscuity.
Both sides of the issue are explored in this compelling one-hour special as O'Reilly talks to key figures in the entertainment industry. Interviewees include: Russell Simmons, Chairman, DEF Jam Records, Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America, Damon Dash, rap music producer, CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records, rap music group Insane Clown Posse, Linda McMahon, Co-CEO, World Wrestling Federation, shock rocker Marilyn Manson and "shock jocks" Opie and Anthony. In his trademark style, O'Reilly asks all those interviewed the tough questions about America’s responsibility to her children and parental responsibilities.
Bill O'Reilly, who was recently dubbed "the new king of cable news" by TV Guide, is the anchor of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, which debuted five years ago when the network was launched. O'Reilly is also a two-time New York Times best-selling author whose current book, The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America has been on The New York Times bestseller list for more than three months. His book, The O'Reilly Factor has just been published in paperback.
News Day Article (http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-p2toptv2643097mar28.story?coll=ny%2Dtelevision%2Dh eadlines)
The Whys of a World Rated X
O'Reilly goes on (and after) the offensive for kids
By Noel Holston
STAFF WRITER. E-mail Noel Holston at noel.holston@ newsday.com.
March 28, 2002
REVIEW
AN O'REILLY FACTOR SPECIAL: THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN CHILD. Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly gets an hour of Fox broadcast time to vent his anger at the entertainment industry. Airs tonight at 9 on WNYW/5.
THERE'S AN unexpected shard of social commentary embedded in the 1979 fantasy-thriller "Time After Time." Jack the Ripper has stolen H.G. Wells' time machine and escaped from Victorian England to modern-day America. Sitting in a hotel room, he turns on the TV and clicks through the channels, encountering an ungodly assortment of mayhem and vulgarity - war carnage, gangster sadism, merrily destructive cartoons. The Ripper smiles contentedly and says, in effect, "I'm home."
If Bill O'Reilly's latest prime-time special for Fox isn't as jolting as that, it's only because we've had two additional decades of relentless conditioning, with movies, TV, radio and the Internet escalating the ugliness ever higher. That the barrage of images O'Reilly presents seems relatively tame is a commentary in itself.
Not that he leaves it at that. Pontificating is his passion, and he doesn't hold back in "The Corruption of the American Child." He begins with a downright radical declaration for a guy whose detractors would like to dismiss as a right-wing ideologue: "The free-enterprise system is robbing children of their childhood." And O'Reilly's indignation remains unmistakable throughout the hour, whether he's venting directly about the media assault on impressionable young minds or attempting to hold entertainment- industry moguls and mouthpieces' feet to the fire.
In response from the latter, he gets evasions, excuses, rationalizations, even sneering indifference.
"Every enterprise has its downside, but I think we're making real progress," says Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti.
"Your rigid attitude about what we can do culturally is not, for me, a guideline to what I should do," says Russell Simmons, founder of the rap-music label Def Jam Records.
"We're artists," says Greg "Opie" Hughes, half of WNEW/102.7 FM's smutty "Opie and Anthony" afternoon show.
"I don't think it's the responsibility of a programmer to try to be inside the home," says World Wrestling Federation chief executive Linda McMahon.
"If those two nerds at Columbine would have had clown makeup on...I wouldn't have felt bad about it at all," says Violent J of the face-painting "rage rock" group Insane Clown Posse. " 'Cause I honestly believe that ain't got nothing to do [with it], even if they were our biggest fans. People are insane. You know what I mean? That's just it. People are on their own."
No one can say O'Reilly isn't an equal-opportunity castigator. He includes scenes from Fox series such as "Dark Angel" in a montage of sexual activity and violence to illustrate his observation that "all the networks present adult situations to children." There's no question that his special will make a lot of viewers' blood boil. He's hardly alone in feeling that our culture is getting coarser and that children need to be protected.
The shortcoming of "The Corruption of the American Child" is that it's almost entirely about feeling. Except in an especially disturbing segment about kids accessing hard-core porn on the Internet, O'Reilly presents little more than his own uneasiness as evidence that the entertainment media is despoiling young lives. He offers no research showing that sneaking into "American Pie" turns 12-year-old boys into sex addicts or that kids who start using major-league swear words when they're 8 are less likely to become effective firefighters, schoolteachers or Wall Street traders.
Even if we share his gut instinct that the entertainment industry is at best indifferent to children's welfare, enticing them to come frolic in the sewer, we still deserve a real journalistic effort from the king of cable news, not just a rant.
E-mail Noel Holston at noel.holston@ newsday.com.
TV Guide Online (http://www.tvguide.com/tv/family/#K)
Corruption of the American Child: An 'O'Reilly Factor' Special
FOX 9 pm/ET
It's 9 pm/ET (8 Central and Mountain times). Do you know what your children are watching? Or listening to? Bill O'Reilly will fill you in on some of their options, and it isn't pretty. It's "see all evil," O'Reilly pronounces in his typical no-holds-barred fashion. "Your kids are watching appalling things." Most parents already know that, of course, but this survey of the entertainment industry's nether reaches can be a sobering reminder. O'Reilly can be credited for not exempting his own network from his rogues' gallery of "rage rappers," shock jocks, sex-charged TV shows and R-rated movies that youngsters seem to have little difficulty finding. O'Reilly manages to get a number of his targets to sit down with him to face his grilling ("You don't feel any guilt at all?"), and the hour also features plenty of rough examples of "appalling things" (there's plenty of quick cutting and bleeping, but it's best that young children not watch). In fact, some might consider the show titillating in its own right, but that's another matter. — PD
http://www.geocities.com/~dcrtv/oreilly.jpg
Article on dcrtv.com (http://www.geocities.com/~dcrtv/)
O'Reilly Attacks O&A - 3/28 - Tonight at 9 on Fox (Channels 5 and 45), Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly (right) takes a look at how the entertainment industry is contributing to "the corruption of the American child." Included in his focus: WJFK-FM's afternoon duo of "Opie And Anthony." He'll also look at hip-hop and metal music and the WWF. But Bill doesn't get around to shining his light of righteousness on Fox News (!) contributor and Chicago radio shock jock Mancow Muller, who recently received $21K in FCC fines for airing sexually explicit material during morning drive. Hmmm.....