Dump the Audience?

By John Stossel, Townhall

Stossel is trying to decide if he should keep the studio audience or not?

After my first two new Fox Business shows, I’m taking a break for Christmas and the New Year’s holiday. We resume Thursday, Jan. 7.

Again, I ask your help. Last time, most of you said: Go with global warming for the first show — “Atlas Shrugged” can wait — and so I did. “Atlas” will be the first show after the holidays.

Today, I need your help in deciding what to do with the studio audience. I wanted an audience because I enjoy speaking on college campuses and I love the spontaneous give-and-take.

Students passionately pose questions like, “How can you defend business when free markets brought us to the crisis we suffer now?!”

I like explaining that what I defend isn’t business but economic freedom and markets. Businessmen — with some honorable exceptions — are usually happy to collude with government to stifle competition and harm consumers and workers. I hate that.

Read More:

Related posts:

1. My First Show on Fox
2. No bump in audience as Stephanopoulos joins ‘GMA’
3. Sarah Palin gives Oprah biggest audience in two years
4. John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox
5. I’m Moving to Fox