Favorite and Least-Favorite News Personalities

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Who’s America’s favorite news personality? Bill O’Reilly. And who’s America’s second-least-favorite news personality? Bill O’Reilly. A new Harris Poll presented respondents with a list of news/current-affairs media stars and asked them to pick their three favorites and three least-favorites. Twenty-three percent included O’Reilly among their faves, putting him atop that list, ahead of runners-up Charles Gibson and Anderson Cooper (17 percent apiece). As for the least-faves list, Rush Limbaugh (who’d scored 12 percent in the faves voting) was in a class by himself, picked by 42 percent of respondents.

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