Stossel To Fox - Smart Move

I'm thinking Stossel will be able to do things at Fox he couldn't have at ABC. It's also a nice get for Fox's business network.

In my new job, I want to dig into the meaning of the words “liberty” and “limited government”. ABC enabled me to do some of that, but Fox offers me more airtime and a new challenge.

Comments

[WBestPresidentEver]

That is Great News. He will bring a lot more to FOX.

[IslamoLlama]

LOLS!

[Ad rem]

Wise move.....way more cachet in appearing on Fox than ABC.

[Captain Joe]

He should hire those two young people that just did the Acorn expose.

[Jamie Lockett]

Its probably a smart business move for all involved but I worry about the segregation of like minded views onto like minded channels. Stossel provided ABC with a right-libertarian viewpoint that they would otherwise not have had. He doesn't exactly add much to the Fox Networks that isn't already there.

When you have everyone at one media outlet thinking a like it doesn't really ensure a lot of interesting debate. Instead what you get is boring propaganda - even if you agree with it its still a dangerous practice from the media. A liberal network just got more liberal and a conservative network just added someone else to say the same thing. Not a great trade off in my opinion.

[Xerocky]

So, is there a single reason left to watch ABC?

[azlibertarian]

If memory serves, didn't Stossel have something that got shoved aside for Zero's Night-o-Healthcare-Reform that ABC put on a couple of months ago?

I agree with Jamie's point above about the balkanization of media, but the practical view is that like Beck, Stossel will get more of his views out to more viewers by moving to Fox than he ever would by staying at ABC.