{"id":5276,"date":"2007-11-09T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T02:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2007-11-14T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T16:43:14","slug":"mark-cuban-bill-oreilly-is-my-new-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5276","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban: ‘Bill O’Reilly is My New Best Friend’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad Friedman, from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas…<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, several television networks and, in fact, a blogger<\/a>, is “very grateful” to Bill O’Reilly, the Fox “News” media personality who has been attacking — and even threatening — him mercilessly, of late.<\/p>\n

I’m sitting in at Cuban’s closing Keynote address at BlogWorld & New Media Expo<\/a> in Vegas (I have been at the conference to speak on political blogging<\/a> on a number of different panels) and I just asked him, during the Q&A, whether he finds O’Reilly’s attacks “to be a net plus or net minus” for his various business interests and enterprises.<\/p>\n

After first replying that O’Reilly’s attacks didn’t much matter, and that they had very little effect either way, I followed up to ask specifically about Brian DePalma’s upcoming film, Redacted<\/em><\/a>, which Cuban’s network, HDNet<\/a> is releasing shortly.<\/p>\n

“When it comes to a specific project like Redacted,<\/em>” Cuban responded, “which is a small movie, it’s grown bigger and bigger by the day. So I’m very grateful to him.”<\/p>\n

“Bill O’Reilly is my new best friend,” he added, to laughter from the crowd which was made up of bloggers and industry-related folks of all political stripes.<\/p>\n

I’ll try to get the audio or video posted on that point later if I can, as an update. As the room is filled with several thousand bloggers, I suspect it should be easy to find shortly. (If anybody beats me to it, feel free to link it in comments, as I’ll be off grid for the next several hours!)<\/p>\n

P.S. <\/strong>As his address was in the same room where I had just finished up my final panel of the conference, I had the opportunity to chat with him quickly as we were trading places on the stage, and was able to thank him for HDNet’s breathtaking Dan Rather Reports<\/em> investigative expos\u00c3\u00a9 on touch-screen voting technology<\/a>. I encouraged him to keep going along those lines and support Rather’s work in this regard. He agreed that it was an amazing report, and in turn, he thanked me for The BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> coverage of same.<\/p>\n

So he’s a billionaire who pays attention.<\/p>\n

The most understated bio I’ve perhaps ever seen: On the big screens next to the podium where he was speaking, the title card read simply, “Mark Cuban, Blogger”.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 11\/13\/07:<\/b> O’Reilly lashes back at Cuban. Details & video here…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogged by Brad Friedman, from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas… Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, several television networks and, in fact, a blogger, is “very grateful” to Bill O’Reilly, the Fox “News” media personality who has been attacking — and even threatening — him mercilessly, of late. I’m sitting in at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}