Bill O'Reilly's Former Station Just Paid Tribute To Him, Completely Ignoring His Sexual Harassment Settlements
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CBS Connecticut station WFSB used Fox News host Bill O'Reilly “making headlines this week” to positively highlight his past as a reporter at the station in the 1970s and 1980s without once mentioning his recently revealed sexual harassment settlements. More than 70 advertisers have pulled their advertisements from O'Reilly's Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor following a New York Times report that O'Reilly and 21st Century Fox paid around $13 million over the years to five women “in exchange for agreeing to not pursue litigation or speak about their” accounts of sexual harassment involving O’Reilly. The WFSB segment did not mention this; instead the anchor simply said O'Reilly “was making headlines this week,” and claimed that archived footage of O'Reilly during his time at the station showed he “made his mark” with “some pretty plum assignments” and “never phoned it in.” It comes as sexual harassment continues to be a serious problem in the workplace, with a 2015 study showing one in three women between the ages of 18 and 34 has been sexually harassed in a workplace and another study finding 70 percent of those who are sexually harassed do not report it due to fear of retaliation. From the April 9 edition of WFSB's Face The State: