Factor this! Bill O’Reilly joins WND
Sept. 6, 2000: Bill O’Reilly, host of the hugely successful “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, joined WND as a regular columnist.
“I had other offers to write columns for other news sites on the Internet,” said O’Reilly. “I chose WND because of its commitment to independence and fearless investigative reporting.”
Said WND Editor Joseph Farah, “We’re thrilled to welcome Bill O’Reilly on board as a regular weekly columnist. I don’t always agree with him, but he is a unique and forceful character in television journalism. O’Reilly, like WND, is fiercely independent – another reason this is a great match.”
At the time O’Reilly joined WND, his TV program on Fox was second in the ratings to CNN’s “Larry King Live.” But within several months of writing for WND, O’Reilly’s ratings soared over King to become the No. 1 program on any cable news channel.
Read Bill O’Reilly’s very first column on WND, “It’s the education, stupid.”
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