BILL O'REILLY (HOST): So Katie, what do you think about Mr. Limbaugh's statement?
KATIE PAVLICH: Well I think that he is wrong. I think that, you know, Fox News is exactly that, it is a news outlet, we provide the news. And, sure, when Fox News came on to the scene, it provided an alternative to liberal mainstream media because those outlets simply weren't allowing conservatives to have a voice. Fox News countered that by putting conservative hosts on the air, having conservative pundits on the air, but we also have a lot of straight news reporters throughout the day. Megyn Kelly of course is one of those people, who has been in the news a lot for asking a certain candidate a question that their supporters didn't like. You know, Fox News anchors and reporters aren't purposefully going after conservatives, they are simply asking questions about their records and about their positions, and that is called journalism. It's not about purposely going after them to somehow prove they're not conservative. Journalists here are simply doing their job.
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BILL O'REILLY: Now Katie, in talk radio is not journalism per se, I did a talk radio show for seven years. And I tried to bring journalistic tenets to it, but it wasn't reporting in the traditional sense. I mean, I and the other talk show hosts make their living on opinion. Fox News as you pointed out makes their living on opinion in the evening, but hard news during the day. And that's where, I think, people get confused. And also, if you ask somebody's candidate they are supporting a tough question, then they don't like that. Because on talk radio, the host favors somebody and they, you know, they're not skeptical of that person.
KATIE PAVLICH: Right.
