Bill O’Reilly, Fox News Host, Fights Back at Claims of Exaggerated Stories

The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has taken to the airwaves to fight back against accusations that he misled audiences with stories about his war reporting earlier in his career.

Last week, the magazine Mother Jones published an article, written by David Corn and Daniel Schulman, that said Mr. O’Reilly exaggerated stories about his war reporting covering the Falklands war in 1982 and in El Salvador in 1980. The article said that while Mr. O’Reilly claimed to be in a war zone when he was a young correspondent for CBS News, no American correspondents ever reached the conflict area during the Falklands war. The story also claimed that a later description by Mr. O’Reilly of his El Salvador experience conflicts with his reporting there.

A version of this article appears in print on February 23, 2015, on page B2 of the New York edition with the headline: Fox News Host Rebuts Claims of Exaggerated War Stories . Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe

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