Bill O'Reilly Killed in Argentina, 1982

I read one of Bill O'Reilly's books and in it, he talks about how he was covering the fall of the Argentine military junta in 1982 and during the riots, someone pointed an assault rifle at him. He survived the experience, but what if he didn't?

Here's the Wiki article on him, so we can see what his post-1982 achievements are and what might have happened without them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O'Reilly_(political_commentator)

Inside Edition looks like it's going to be rather different, for starters. Heck, Fox News might not be nearly as big in TTL, since he was one of it's early big guys.
 
That is an interesting question, because whether you like him or not, he has the number 1 rated cable news show and has for a long time. Without him it could effect Fox News as a whole, especially the programs that follow his. I cannot think of any viable replacements and I watch all the major cable news channels.
 
I cannot think of any viable replacements and I watch all the major cable news channels.

The only reason there are no alternate O'Reilly's on air right now is because (a.) he's a guy drawn from a very narrow niche (purist oldschool Nixon/Rizzo sorta-conservative, who came up through news media & stands apart from both Limbaugh and the veteran college Republican set that otherwise dominates US righttalk), and (b.) the industry doesn't need more than one of him at any one time.

If O'Reilly isn't around for the birth of Fox then Roger Ailes will recruit somone else like him; I've read that American sports journalism is full of guys who have the exact same worldview as him, only they never get to break out of that field.
 
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