I can understand how frustrating it must have been for Stossel at ABC, given that he’s on the other side of the global warming issue from the news department there, but moving to Fox will minimize the broader impact of what he has been saying about the subject of global warming.
It is worth a flashback though, to his report in 2007 on the issue.
I hope he’ll keep an eye on the issue.
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E.M.Smith (23:29:27) :
Possible. Better to say what is actually meant so as not to be misunderstood or misinterpreted.
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More on Fox News and the Mainstream (Un)Media:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/14/dan-gainor-acorn-media-ignore/
What the public thinks:
http://people-press.org/report/543/
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[snip – OK I’m putting the kibosh on this political discussion – Anthony ]
Good, it’s about time.
“they still have to travel another 4,000km (2,400 miles) by land to get to Stockholm.”
By LAND??
This is indicative of what I’m sure John Stossel had to put up with every week at his job. I’m not sure how to embed video here. I’ll give it my best shot:
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If that doesn’t work, here’s the link to the video:
I doubt that the reason Stossel is moving to FBN is only because of his views on AGW. It’s because he’s a libertarian. He began his career as a liberal consumer advocate. That’s how he “won his seat”, so to speak, at ABC (and his many Emmy awards). I remember watching an interview where he talked about his conversion to libertarianism. He said he began his career believing that government had to step in to control the evil impulses of corporations, to protect the consumer. He said, possibly in a different setting, that when he began all his friends were leftists. Many were hippies. They all told him the same things, that capitalism was bad, corporations were evil, we’re destroying the planet, etc. It was only after doing his job for many years and observing the effect that government was having on people that he realized that its intervention was worse than what was happening with the private economy acting on its own. I don’t know when he made his switch, but I can vouch for his conversion. I remember when I was a teenager watching Stossel’s consumer advocacy segments, and they were just as he said. His message was consistent in that he talked about the bad things that had happened because of corporate action. I noticed the change in him in the 1990s when he started talking about the bad things that government was doing. He said once he made his conversion there were people in the office who wouldn’t even look at him, much less speak to him. He’s put up with this for years. I thank him for his sacrifice. He deserves what I’m sure will be a friendlier environment at FBN.
BTW, Stossel is not the only one who’s gone from ABC to Fox. Brit Hume was an important part of ABC’s news lineup until he went to FNC. He went to Fox many years ago. If you’ve ever listened to Brit’s commentary it’s clear that he is conservative-minded. He retired from reporting last year, though he makes occasional appearances on Fox news programs. Chris Wallace (son of Mike Wallace) was also one of ABC’s major reporters until he came to FNC a few years ago. He came aboard to host Fox News Sunday, a one-hour show that’s Fox’s answer to the network “inside the beltway” Sunday news talk programs, like Meet The Press.