Politics aside, Bill O’Reilly is a great showman and people who don’t like him don’t give him enough credit for that. Why do we say this? Just watch him on The Daily Show HERE and you see somebody who knows how to use his media persona. TMV does lots of shows and he can say: the way he interacts with Jon Stewart’s audience and the way he carries himself has valuable lessons for all entertainers (and we are NOT saying that as a snide remark, but as a compliment).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.