When I announced last week that I was leaving ABC for Fox, some readers complained about my “bias.” I replied: “Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is that I am upfront about mine.”
Look at today’s burning issue: President Obama’s pledge to redesign 15 percent of the economy. Virtually every reporter calls his health care plan “reform.” But dictionaries define reform as “improvement.” So before they present any evidence, reporters pronounce Obama’s plan an improvement. Isn’t that bias?
The New York Times took its bias to an absurd length. Its page-one story on the big anti-big-government rally in Washington, D.C., referred to “protests that began with an opposition to health care. …”
Apparently, in the Times reporter’s and editors’ view, opponents of the Obama health care plan oppose health care itself. (The online article was later changed.)
Read More: By John Stossel, Reason Magazine
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Congratulations to John Stossel!!
I am sure other reporters have their bias but just won't speak up – they are afraid – because they know their job would be terminated – - I can not believe that they don't see the same disparities that the rest of us see…what kind of world do they live in?
All progress is change. Not all change is progress.
For a long time I wondered why you were with ABC.
Now at Fox you will not have to fight so hard to get y our stories aired. Hopefully the stories ABC stopped, they can know be aired, with a bit of history on each story.
JOHN STOSSEL: WELCOME TO FOX . GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH THE TRUTH SQUAD GOOD GUYS! NOW YOU CAN REALLY TELL IT LIKE IT IS.