Ooh, the juicy details. It seems that within the Jesse Jackson nonstory, an interesting mini story has developed about Bill O'Reilly. I was just reading the LA Times #1 viewed story, about how the media "almost" missed being able to cover the Jesse Jackson nonstory, because his comments were ignored until a fox news transcriber-technician happened across them.
The comments went unnoticed in the control room, Bill Shine, Fox News' senior vice president for programming, said Thursday.
The scathing remarks first came to the attention of an employee working the overnight shift Sunday, who transcribed the tape as part of training for the network's ongoing digital conversion. Otherwise, "it potentially would have not been discovered," Shine said.
But it was the next sentence in the LA Times piece that made me lol for a solid few minutes.
On Tuesday, a staff member in the digital department e-mailed Jackson's comments to a producer for "The O'Reilly Factor," who was vacationing in France.
It seems, in the process of drooling over the details of the events of "Jessegate," Senior FOX VP Bill Shrine (or an unnamed source) accidentally let the cat out of the bag: despite Bill O'Reilly's Factor well known animosity towards the French (see here, here, and here), it seems an as-yet unnamed producer was sleeping with the enemy.
Once again, yes, you read that correctly: "a producer for The O'Reilly Factor...was vacationing in France."
The Horror!