Please read more than the headlines and take an objective view. Here are excerpts where they just mention harassment cases that were settled until the last line and Tanturos. The phone masturbation is a joke because someone working out can sound the same way. None of these women with fox ever filed a complaint and went straight for the headlines and $$.
Fox News star Bill O'Reilly and the network have paid out some $13 million to five women over the past 15 years to settle a series of harassment allegations against the opinionated host, according to a published report in the New York Times.
O'Reilly - the top-rated attraction on cable news for many years - generated lurid headlines in 2004 for his dispute with Andrea Mackris, who alleged that he had harassed her repeatedly while she was a producer of his program "The O'Reilly Factor." Macris settled her claims for a reported payout of $9 million in 2004.
In January of this year, O'Reilly settled another harassment claim, lodged by former Fox News presenter Juliet Huddy, for an undisclosed sum.
The undisclosed complaints unearthed by the Times against O'Reilly were made by women who either worked for him or appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," and included allegations of verbal abuse, lewd comments and phone calls in which the women said it sounded as if O'Reilly was masturbating.
The paper identified the three women who complained about O'Reilly as Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, a producer who claimed that O'Reilly had verbally abused her in 2002 in front of colleagues; Rebecca Gomez Diamond, a Fox Business Network host, who reportedly recorded conversations with O'Reilly and settled in 2011; and former Fox anchor Laurie Dhue, who settled last year.
Now let's continue reading about how none of the women who worked there filed a complaint with HR about sexual harassment or harassment.
O'Reilly's statement, posted on his website, said: "Just like other prominent and controversial people, I'm vulnerable to lawsuits from individuals who want me to pay them to avoid negative publicity. In my more than 20 years at Fox News Channel, no one has ever filed a complaint about me with the Human Resources Department, even on the anonymous hotline.
"But most importantly, I'm a father who cares deeply for my children and who would do anything to avoid hurting them in any way. And so I have put to rest any controversies to spare my children.
The only other mention of sexual harrassment has not been settled...
O'Reilly and Fox continue to face allegations by former Fox personality Andrea Tantaros, who claimed, in a lawsuit filed last summer, that O'Reilly and Ailes sexually harassed her.