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Publishers’ Note: Minutes after we have published a mini-article on Mr. Bill O’Reilly, hundreds and hundreds of letters from around the world poured over our desks. Almost 99% of them were positive. Many senders expressed a profound respect and admiration for that man. One gentleman from San Juan wrote:” I bought a television yesterday so I could watch the program of Bill O’Reilly. Sometimes, I missed the shows because I work late in a factory. I asked my friends to tape the program for me but they are lazy. Like this, I said to my self Emilio go buy a television. I bought one, a new one, not a used one. Now I see Mr. O’Reilly always. I liked what you wrote about him. My sister Rosita who is an artist reads always your magazine. Rosita found the article about senior O’Reilly and called me…Hey hey Ola Emilio come see this. I saw this, it was your good article about Mr. O’Reilly a great hero for me.” Other readers asked us to provide a bio on Mr. O’Reilly. So we went to the source. The Fox News/O’Reilly Bio Site and retrieved what we needed. O’Reilly Bio. Here it is as per the request of our readers.

Bill O'Reilly joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as the anchor/host of The O'Reilly Factor in 1996. The O'Reilly Factor (8-9:00PM ET/PT Mondays through Fridays), the most-watched program on cable news, has caused the powerful in America to duck for cover as the rigidly enforced "No Spin Zone" deals with the nation's most important issues. From humble beginnings on Long Island, New York, Bill O'Reilly has risen to become "the new pope of TV Journalism" according to television critic Marvin Kitman. In 2000, The Factor (as O'Reilly refers to it) passed Larry King Live to become the number one cable news program in the United States. Both of O'Reilly's non-fiction books, The O'Reilly Factor, and The No Spin Zone have each reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list. His novel Those Who Trespass has been optioned for the screen by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions. While growing up O'Reilly had no idea that journalism would be his calling. He lived in a modest house with his father, mother and sister in the Westbury section of Levittown. O'Reilly began working in his early teens mowing lawns, which evolved into a house painting business. Upon graduating from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York with a degree in History, he taught high school for two years in Miami, Florida. O'Reilly returned to school to pursue a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. After receiving his Master's degree, O'Reilly began his television news career in Scranton, Pennsylvania, followed by stops in Dallas, Denver, Portland, Oregon, Hartford, and Boston. In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York and later became a CBS News correspondent covering the wars in El Salvador and the Falkland Islands, among other assignments. In 1986, Bill O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent on The World News Tonight. During his three year tenure, he appeared on the show more than one hundred times, and received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. O'Reilly's career changed in 1989 when he joined the nationally syndicated Inside Edition as senior correspondent and backup anchor. Within three weeks, he took over the anchor chair from David Frost. During his six years at Inside Edition, the show was one of the highest-rated "infotainment" programs in America. In 1995, O'Reilly left to enroll in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he received a Master's Degree in Public Administration. Upon leaving Harvard, Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of the then startup FOX News Channel, hired O'Reilly to anchor The O'Reilly Factor.

Bill O'Reilly continues to live on Long Island where his best friends are guys with whom he attended first grade.

Publishers’ Statement: We conducted a poll in European major cities pertaining to two paramount issues. One of those issues was the Bill O’Reilly effect and impact on European TV watchers. We sent 1,200 questionnaires which included questions such as:

3- How do you rate these talk shows: (Select from The Best to the Worst. Click on the Square for your selection)

Some of the results we got indicate that Mr. Bill O’Reilly’s and Mr. Larry King’s shows are Number 1 in Europe. Both TV commentators enjoy the highest rating in program quality and personality-charisma appeal!