Posted on 01/28/2005 10:54:12 AM PST by FreeKeys
Fact or Fiction?
Is gasoline more expensive than ever? Do you think urban sprawl is ruining America? You might not think so after watching John Stossel's "Myths, Lies and Nasty Behavior."
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Coming Up on 2020 Coming Up on 20/20
* Tonight on "20/20" at 10 p.m.
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He's in a libertarian with a questioning mind. He also drive nuts social conservatives.
Yes! How 'bout emailing the announcement to your address book?
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Tonight on "20/20" at 10pm Eastern/Pacific: John Stossel has a special hour, taking on conventional wisdom in "Myths, Lies and Nasty Behavior." Fact or Fiction? Is gasoline is more expensive than ever? Do you think urban sprawl is ruining America? You might not think so after watching John Stossel's "Myths, Lies and Nasty Behavior." |
Should be good....
Thanks for the reminder :o)
verrry good so far...
How 'bout helping out on the JOHN STOSSEL MESSAGE BOARD here: http://forums.go.com/abcnews/forum?start=0&forumID=17
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I bet Stossel eats alone in the ABC lunchroon next week.
Bet he wouldn't want it any other way either.
Why would anyone want to sit with, let alone listen to liberals while they are eating?
Yes, we all know how TV networks just hate to acknowledge higher ratings! I mean, can you imagine your competitors knowing that you OUTPERFORMED THEM? Can you imagine having to actually ADMIT to good ratings when you're in the business of selling advertising time?
Sheez.
OK, so what is ABC holding back, exactly? They continually devote high-profile prime time space to John Stossel's work, putting him before millions of viewers. Yet they're unwilling to "admit" to ratings data that is already publicly available?
I'd be interested to see evidence for these two assertions:
1. The ratings for "20/20" make a "huge upward jump" every time John Stossel is on.
2. Someone has tried to get ABC to admit this, but ABC has refused.
I've no reason to doubt #1. But something is telling me that you just kind of pulled #2 out of ... I don't know where, exactly. Can you please point to proof to support the assertions?
As for Stossel himself, his work is wonderful. He is truly a blessing.
Semolina
Right And Wrong
Stossel is more libertarian than conservative; he is a free-market advocate and anti-handout and regulation, but is liberal on on social issues like marriage and abortion. ABC News, which brings you Peter Jennings, Baba Wawa, George Stephanopoulos, Terry "Sweet Lips" Moran, and Carole "Are Our Children Going To Grow Up Stupid?" Simpson, wouldn't tolerate Stossel if he wasn't immensely popular with the public.
Stossel is the closest thing to a Republican any of the big three nets will let anywhere close to a newscast.
Will it be repeated? I missed it.
very ineterested! Thanks, Free Kays! I don't watch TV, so I have to listen to the rare John Stossel radio program!
Welcome to FR.
You should lurk more before you post. 'Pod.
Thanks for the welcome. But why would you presume to know how much or how little I've been "lurking" before I posted? How would you know, for instance, that I hadn't been "lurking" daily for two years before I signed up to post? How much "lurking" is required, exactly, to meet your threshold of acceptability?
None of that is relevant anyway, because the reality is that I've been posting here for ages -- just not under this screen name. (I've adopted this new handle to match the name I'm now using at my new blog.) In fact, from checking your profile, I see that I was patronizing Free Republic well before your own sign-up date of April 1998.
The real question, though, is why you'd have any interest in my lurking-to-posting ratio in the first place.
It's clear that one thing never changes at Free Republic, regardless of the year or screen name: Too many responses focus on other users rather than on the actual arguments presented in their posts.
I don't know. Sometimes they repeat these things if they're done as "stand-alone" specials, but I've never seen them repeat them if they're presented as official "20/20" episodes, but I can't be sure.
Whatever, it WILL be available on DVD and VHS on this: JOHN STOSSEL VIDEO PAGE. You can try and see if they'll accept an advance order if you want. They've always treated me right.
Enough so that you don't make an idiot out of yourself when you post.
You say that you were here under another name. What was it?
You also say that you have been :patronizing" FR longer than I have been around. What was your original screenname and number?
Many people lurk quite awhile before they sign up and begin their active particiapation with FR.
He'd do well to look at myths regarding the military, specifically the Draft and Women in combat.
I believe you can write him at Stossel@ABCNews.com
Thanks.
I used to think college tuition was spiking way beyond inflation when I found it that it has been closely tracking the average cost of a new car for 30 years.
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