LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “The O’Reilly Factor” has long been the most popular program in cable news, and the controversy surrounding host Bill O’Reilly’s war-reporting experiences has only helped elevate the show’s ratings.
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As media observers have noted, the deluge of reports questioning O’Reilly’s past reportage is likely to only rally his core audience to the show. Monday’s episode of “O’Reilly Factor,” in which O’Reilly defended himself by broadcasting excerpts of CBS News coverage of the protests he was covering in 1982, drew the largest overall “Factor” audience (3.34 million) since November.
