O'Reilly: No Point in Covering 'Meaningless' Bombings in Iraq

David Edwards and Muriel KanePublished: Wednesday June 13, 2007
On Tuesday, Bill O'Reilly defended Fox News against charges that it devotes too little coverage to the Iraq War.
The Fox pundit said that "on my program, I don't do a lot of Iraq reporting because we don't know what's happening. We can't find out."
"We don't highlight every terrorist attack, because we learn nothing from that, and that's exactly what the terrorists want us to do," O'Reilly explained. "CNN and especially MSNBC delight in showing Iraqi violence because they want Americans to think badly of President Bush, and that strategy has succeeded."
"If the war in Iraq is indeed a mess," he concluded, "there's little news value in broadcasting daily bombings. By the way, Fox News continues to crush CNN and MSNBC in the ratings, as the folks know news when they see it."
According to O'Reilly, that's "because we bring you stuff that is new, that is relevant to your life, and I'm not gonna cover every bomb that goes off in Tikrit, because it's meaningless."
The following video is from Fox's O'Reilly Factor, broadcast on June 12.
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