What Bill O'reilly Reads

Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, Oct 1, 2002

"I read Time and Newsweek for the obvious reasons. U.S. News for its foreign coverage. Esquire, GQ, Playboy, and Vanity Fair for their stories - some of them are profound, and I can use them for the [Fox TV] show. I peruse the younger mags - Maxim, Rolling Stone - looking for trends. I read the New York Times Magazine and Electronic Media, and the city magazines if there's a feature that's important, but I think they've gone soft.

I don't read any ideological journals because mine is not an ideological show. Many of [those mags] are on a crusade. I never read anything on the Internet, because it's not checked.... One of the most blatantly intellectually dishonest [people] in print is Matt Drudge."