Bill O'Reilly's El Salvador War Reporting Called Into Question

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is facing more criticism regarding his journalistic integrity after he was questioned on his story that he witnessed nuns being executed in El Salvador in the 1980's.

The nonprofit organization Media Matters recently accused O'Reilly, a Fox News host, of misreporting on the El Salvador civil war in the 1980's. The group points to multiple instances in which O'Reilly reportedly claimed to have seen nuns get shot in the back of the head during the civil war.

Media Matters then argues that O'Reilly, working as a CBS correspondent at the time of the war, would have arrived in El Salvador after the shootings occurred.

O'Reilly recently defended himself to the Los Angeles Times, arguing that he had seen images of the nuns being shot, but had never said that he witnessed it first-hand.

"While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered," he said. "The mention of the nuns on my program came the day of the Newtown massacre."

"The segment was about evil and how hard it is for folks to comprehend it," O'Reilly added. "I used the murdered nuns as an example of that evil. That's what I am referring to when I say, 'I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head.' No one could possibly take that segment as reporting on El Salvador."

Criticism of O'Reilly's reporting record comes after NBC News suspended host Brian Williams for allegedly misremembering events surrounding the Iraq War.