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By PDX People<\/span><\/p>\n

PORTLAND, Ore. \u2013 For more than 20 years Bill O\u2019Reilly has been a name that most Americans either love or hate since his style of reporting has often been confrontational because he\u2019s not one to shy away from the hot-button issues of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Bill O\u2019Reilly<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Born in 1949, Bill O\u2019Reilly<\/a><\/span> didn\u2019t actually start out in journalism until the early 1970\u2019s since he would teach high school English and History for two years after earning his bachelor’s of arts degree from Marist College before going back to college at Boston University and earning his masters of arts degree in broadcast journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the early years of his journalism career, O\u2019Reilly would work as a reporter and columnist for various newspapers across the United States before moving onto anchoring positions with television stations in Dallas, Pennsylvania, and Portland Oregon\u2019s KATU.<\/span><\/p>\n

O’Reilly’s stint as an anchor at Portland’s\u00a0KATU,<\/a>\u00a0was for nine months, in 1984-1985.<\/span><\/p>\n

He wasn’t in the Portland market for very long, but those who worked with him say O’Reilly was full of the self-confidence — you might even call it arrogance.<\/span><\/p>\n

O’Reilly said, “I moved the ratings of that station from last to first, from October to July, I did a good job for those people.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Claim To Fame<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s \u201cclaim to fame\u201d began in the late 1980\u2019s with his time on the hit news television show Inside Edition before he eventually moved on to Fox News and started his hit well-known political commentary show The O\u2019Reilly Factor<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the years, O\u2019Reilly<\/a><\/span> has frequently used his platform on Fox News to draw attention to multiple hot-button issues of the day and he\u2019s not been a stranger to controversy either and he\u2019s also been in a war of words over the years with television personalities like Rosie O\u2019Donnell to Barbara Walters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though he frequently stands for Conservative causes, Bill O\u2019Reilly is actually registered with the Independence Party of New York, and he\u2019s not been one to shy away from drawing attention to controversies surrounding both political parties in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to his success in television, O\u2019Reilly has been able to use his reported $20 million dollars per year earnings to support various Veterans causes across the United States and he\u2019s also appeared in feature films as himself over the years including Iron Man 2 and Transformers Dark of the Moon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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