O’Reilly And Marc Lamont Hill Clash Over The Media And Whitney Houston’s Drug Use

Bill O’Reilly opened his Fox News program Thursday night by recapping his media tour this morning, and slammed the media for not being more critical of drug abuse in the wake of Whitney Houston’s death and asked Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill whether the media should take an advocacy position on the issue. “Who said to her, ‘hey, this is wrong not only for you, but for your daughter,’ O’Reilly pressed Hill. “Tell me one person who did that?”

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“Her family did!” Hill interjected.

“That’s not the media!” O’Reilly exclaimed. “She sat for major interviews and nobody looked at her and said you know what? You should stop this and this is terrible and it’s sending a terrible example to other people.”

“I don’t think that’s the media’s job, Bill,” Hill replied. “I don’t think as journalists our job is to go around wagging our finger at people.”

“Our job is to tell the truth!” O’Reilly boomed.

It should be noted that Diane Sawyer grilled Houston over her drug use in 2002.

Watch the segment below via Fox News:

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