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2006-06-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

John Stossel: Not Afraid to Tell the Truth

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Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-02 13:43|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Paid a heavy price? He still has his job and gets his stories on the air about as often as he can expect. Not everybody loves him, and some colleagues are skeptical - that should be true of more reporters, not less. He stopped getting awards from people he doesn't have a lot of respect for - not a big tragedy. The only people who paid a price are the producers at ABC who quit rather than be associated with him. ABC's gain, I suspect, but not Stossel's problem.

Unless he thinks he's entitled to universal love, I don't get the persecution complex. Sounds like he has a good, and well paying, gig to me.

Posted by Omaick Glaise9605 2006-06-02 17:16|| 2006-06-02 17:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, somebody asked him what he thought, hoping for some good snarky quotes, he responded, then they wrote the story. He's got the right to call it like he sees it, whether that is actually what this article represents or not. Who knows if this is unspun reporting? I respect him simply because he seems to pull no punches, letting the chips fall where they may. That's damned rare.

I do like the Stossel Rule. A lot.

Posted by Jinenter Phealing5856 2006-06-02 17:29|| 2006-06-02 17:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I saw him on CSPAN over a yr ago lecturing at the Kennedy School in Harvard (IIRC). He talked about the Stossel rule and how a free capitalist market is better at fixing itself then govt could ever do. I was very impressed w/him.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-02 17:36|| 2006-06-02 17:36|| Front Page Top

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