Annenberg Poll: 40 % Of Americans Consider O'Reilly A Journalist

Click on the title for a link to an AP article proclaiming that 40% of Americans think Bill O'Reilly is, in fact, a journalist.

Now, I realize that polls are just polls. But the poll that counts in Mr. O'Reilly's realm of interest is the Nielsen Ratings. And it appears that he is winning that one too.

In spite of the fact that he has an ego the size of Texas, he is the king of cable news shows because people perceive him to be a fair and balanced journalist. He shoots straight from the hip and cuts through the rhetoric, in a hurry. I used to watch him a lot, but lately (in his moment of ego inflation) he has developed a tendency to interrupt his guests way too much, even those he agrees with.

That said, it is very hard to think that somebody, somewhere does not think he is a journalist. He functions as a journalist, writes like a journalist, speaks like a journalist, and was hired to be a journalist (regardless of whether anyone likes him or not).