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Fear Factor: Bill OReillys Baroque Period, by Nicholas Lemann/The New Yorker [Candides Notebooks]
Continue to the storyA long time ago, the distilled essence of cable news seemed to be CNN’s high-energy, low-production-value coverage of the first Gulf War. Today, the essence is O’Reilly, who is firmly planted in his studio, and who begins his show each night by leaning into a camera that is tightly focussed on his upper body, and almost projecting himself out of the television set with the force of his personality.