Shark Bytes

haha! bill o'reilly is a douchebag. always has been, always will be.

hate to say it...but the show was actually good with Bill O'Reilly as host

when it featured deborah norville singing. she sucks

Feb '07 Sweeps:
So Inside Edition hires some young people to bring hidden cameras with them into nightclubs that host teen nights. What do they find? Just your typical teen stuff when no adults are around- making out, sex, wet t-shirt contests.

So when the reporter confronts one of the owners, they leave his quote in: "You know its not true! You guys are just trying to sell papers!" Umm... exactly - except they're trying to gain viewers instead of sell papers. The story exposed nothing new about what I would expect to go on at a nightclub.

It becomes an "Entertainment Tonight" clone

I remember, back in the earily 90s, flipping channels through the usual 7:30 pre-primetime drek of game shows and entertainment/tabloid news. My channel surfing stopped momentarily at Inside Edition, which I would have usually dismissed as another trashy psuedo-news show. Except this time, they had on the air an unusually good anchor. His demeanor was serious, sincere, yet somewhat cordial; he was not the usual sleazeball local news anchor monkey that got promoted through the ranks. He dealt with some rather trivial stories, but he made the most to squeeze substance out of them. His interviews were probing, critical, and thoughtful, unusually different from the usual interviewee showboating common on TV news. In short, he made a show worth watching. His name was Bill O'Reilly, and he went on to be one of the biggest names in TV News. Once he got his own show on Fox News, he was allowed to shine, and he made one of the best shows in the business. Inside Edition was trash TV before O'Reilly and was trash TV after O'Reilly, but while Bill O'Reilly was on the show, he lent it the class and journalistic quality that only he can provide. The show jumped the shark when he left.

With one line this show went from the "shows I ignore" to "shows I hate" category. Flipping through channels I caught the dolled-up IE reporter backstage at the Golden Globes and I caught this remark: "And the question on everybody's mind: what were the stars wearing?". Yeah right, let's see today we have such trivial issues as the nosediving economy, going to war with Iraq, terrorism, gas and electricity prices rocketing, etc. etc, going on. Yet Inside Edition thinks what's on my mind is what today's overpaid, over-exposed, undeserving, under-talented outspoken celebrities are wearing to one of what, forty or fifty awards ceremonies they have each year. I'm glad the Golden Globes got it's ass kicked in the ratings by the AFC Championship game. As for Inside Edition, I can't speak for the rest of the world (like you think you can) but don't lump me into the Blind Sheep Sucking up to Hollywood category.

This show was mindless from the first day. I remember watching it when I was twelve, and I also remember Bill O' Reilly as host. That it gave him a break is reason enough to hate the show. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that a decade and a half later he would actually be a widely respected T.V. "Journalist". The devolution will be televised.

Yeah, it's "A Current Affair" rip-off, but it's a lot better than people think it is, even with Deborah Norville hosting. Also, the show that all of them are proteges of is "20/20". That was the original news magazine kind of show. At any rate, "Inside Edition"'s real claim to fame is that it was Bill O'Reilly's first big break in the news biz.