Whatever happens to Bill O’Reilly’s career, one aspect of this unrelenting story line at Fox News deserves to be put to rest forever. Let’s call it the “hotline defense.”That’s the ludicrous idea that a woman who is being sexually harassed, within a company known to be rife with misogyny, would choose to call an internal hotline to make her complaint. And, as Smith notes, the claims against O’Reilly go back much further than that — over 15 years. He pointed out germane passages, all of which make it sound as if these matters are taken very seriously. Has Fox’s longtime culture of misogyny truly changed?

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2017 19:55 UTC