The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America by Bil

The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America byBill O'Reilly

Publisher: Broadway; 1st ed edition (October 16, 2001) | ISBN-10: 0767908481 | PDF | 0,5 Mb | 208 pages

The audience of Fox's top-rated cable news talk show TheO'Reilly Factor and of the bestselling book by the same nameknow that this explosive anchor can be articulate, bombastic,scornful, witty, iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive andsarcastic ("Can you feel Gary Condit's pain?"). When conductinginterviews, O'Reilly, a two-time Emmy winner with 25 yearsreporting experience, delivers tough questions and corrosivecounterpoints. In the No-Spin Zone (originally conceived for hisTV show), "lies are rejected and equivocations are mocked." "AllI ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to thequestions, and if they can't, explain why," says O'Reilly. Herehe excerpts past interviews with various memorableopponents James Carville (on Bill Clinton), Dr. Laura (onworking mothers), former surgeon general Dr. Joycelyn Elders (onsex education), Puff Daddy (on rap), Susan Sarandon (on policebrutality), Al Sharpton (on boycotts) and insightfullyintroduces each, mulling over the issue or providing background.To cover TV sleaze and violence, he splices interviews (SteveAllen, Howdy Doody's Buffalo Bob) into his own terse text. Thesame treatment is applied to the death penalty (George W. Bush,Bianca Jagger), taxes (Mario Cuomo, GAO head David Walker) andother issues. He saves the best for last Dan Rather on newsstories the media overlooks, prefaced by O'Reilly's own memoriesof becoming "a 'dead man walking' at CBS News." (On-sale: Oct.16) Forecast: O'Reilly's TV ratings continue to rise, and the show's"No-Spin Zone" title will grab book buyers. With simultaneous CDand large-print editions, and an e-book due in November, totalsales should be astronomical.