The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, June 14, 2005  

WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST
Popular Misconceptions

Oh for crying out loud:

About 40 percent of Americans say they consider talk show host Bill O’Reilly a journalist -- more than would define famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward the same way, according to a poll conducted this spring.

O’Reilly is on the Fox News Channel, offering his often tart conservative opinions, while Woodward has spent a career writing news stories and books.

Only 30 percent of those polled said Woodward was a journalist, while 53 percent said they didn’t know, despite the fact that Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate story that ultimately led to President Nixon’s resignation in 1974.

More than a quarter said talk show host Rush Limbaugh was one, while one in five said they considered newspaper columnist George Will to be a journalist.

There’s the silver lining in this: most of them got those last two right.

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