Hm. Sounds like even the head honchos at his own network can’t stand Bill O’Reilly:

“It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.’s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O’Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator,” Wolff wrote, “but [Fox News chief executive] Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other.”

“The embarrassment can no longer be missed,” Wolff wrote, in another section of the book. “He mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it. He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O’Reilly. And while it is not that he would give Fox up—because the money is the money; success trumps all—in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets.”

Calderone notes that Murdoch bioagrapher Michael Wolff says Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal in the first place was because he didn’t want to be tethered to “the belligerent, the vulgar, the loud, the menacing, the unsubtle” Fox News (that’s a pretty good definition of wingers in general, not just the stars on their network), and instead is pining for “the better-heeled, the more magnanimous, the further nuanced.”

So even Fox News’s owner is disenchanted.

But who will tell the viewers?