John Corn
05-14-03, 05:09 PM
Hmmmm..I might have to start watching this show now. Good move ABC. :righton:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/5854046.htm
Renegade consumer reporter John Stossel, often controversial and always contrarian, is moving into the co-anchor chair at ABC's news magazine show 20/20, the network announced Tuesday.
No reporter on the broadcast networks is more forthrightly opinionated than Stossel. His pieces often take a point of view: that environmentalists are apocalyptic ''scaremongers'' who exaggerate fears of global warming and pollution; that the war on drugs does more harm than good; that greed is good, and charity bad, for the economy. Unlike most consumer reporters, who think government regulation is the solution to most problems, Stossel believes it only makes them worse.
Stossel believes it's the nature of his opinions rather than the opinions themselves that irritate his critics. He says he has spent most of his career ''swimming upstream'' as a libertarian in a profession largely populated by political liberals. No one ever took issue when he criticized a particular make of infant car seat or Alka-Seltzer, Stossel said, only when he started going after liberal sacred cows.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/5854046.htm
Renegade consumer reporter John Stossel, often controversial and always contrarian, is moving into the co-anchor chair at ABC's news magazine show 20/20, the network announced Tuesday.
No reporter on the broadcast networks is more forthrightly opinionated than Stossel. His pieces often take a point of view: that environmentalists are apocalyptic ''scaremongers'' who exaggerate fears of global warming and pollution; that the war on drugs does more harm than good; that greed is good, and charity bad, for the economy. Unlike most consumer reporters, who think government regulation is the solution to most problems, Stossel believes it only makes them worse.
Stossel believes it's the nature of his opinions rather than the opinions themselves that irritate his critics. He says he has spent most of his career ''swimming upstream'' as a libertarian in a profession largely populated by political liberals. No one ever took issue when he criticized a particular make of infant car seat or Alka-Seltzer, Stossel said, only when he started going after liberal sacred cows.