Stossel On Broadway, A Review
By Wes Keene | February 11, 2010 | In Category: Economy, General
I just got finished watching a great talk by John Stossel in New York at the Heritage Foundation.
John is the former co-anchor of ABC’s 20/20, and now hosts Stossel on Fox Business.
John is one of those rare birds that turned around from his old liberal ways. He’s no Republican shill. At one point, he even offered some strong words to an audience of mostly Republicans. He’s concerned about Republicans trying to scare people from Health Reform by talking about Medicare cuts. In John’s mind these cuts are actually necessary. Don’t fear, he’s against the health reform plans in near totality, but when it comes to Medicare cuts, John says Republicans get it wrong. I couldn’t agree with him more.
When he anchored 20/20 on ABC there were originally 30 million viewers for the program. By the time he left, that number was down to 5 million. Now Stossel works on Fox Business and considerably fewer viewers than that. But to Stossel there is something much bigger in play. He can speak his mind, educate an interested audience and be support by a culture that wants him and his message to succeed.
One other note: John started a charity years ago, Stossel In The Classroom. This charity purchases John’s own episodes and gives them away to teachers to show them in the classroom. He’s reached 100,000 teachers representing 12 million students getting an education on how to keep our free markets strong, at no cost.
ABC made his charity buy his own programs back before they could be given away. Another benefit to John’s move, Fox’s Roger Ailes gives them to Stossel’s charity, free of charge.
Check out John’s always thought provoking blog at stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com, and check out “Stossel” on Fox Business Network.
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