Right wing Rambling #13: ABC KILLS JOHN STOSSEL INTERVIEW FOOTAGE

[Todd]

John Stossel's employers have caved in to parents and environmentalists.

Citing a wish to "respect the parents' wishes," ABC pulled footage of interviews with children from Stossel's upcoming special, which airs at 10 p.m. Friday. The special explains how environmentalists' claims have been blown out of proportion. Stossel will now have to find other footage—or conduct new interviews--to fill the time.

What's the big deal? Seven parents raised holy hell, claiming that Stossel had misled their children with his questions. They said they hadn't been informed that Stossel was involved. They believe Stossel asked the children leading questions to support his views.

Yeah...like the environmentalists NEVER ask leading questions to support their own views. They'd never try to mislead the American public, would they?

That's not all. These seven whining parents are working with the Washington-based Environmental Working Group. ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider is publicly wondering "how people who had no complaints discovered they had complaints after they had been contacted by activists."

How, indeed? Did the Environmental Working Group seek out these parents in
the same way class-action lawyers seek out "victims" for their cases against big corporations?

Given that environmentalists nationwide stand to lose money and support if the American people believe John Stossel, would you put it past them to attack his special any way they can?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49392-2001Jun26.html

 

[Unclebill]

…What's the big deal? Seven parents raised holy hell, claiming that Stossel had misled their children with his questions. They said they hadn't been informed that Stossel was involved. They believe Stossel asked the children leading questions to support his views…

The following is from an interview I heard with Stossel on Roger Hedgecock's local San Diego radio show this afternoon.

It seems the parents were completely happy with the interviews of their kids conducted by Stossel for two weeks after the taping of the interviews. Apparently, it wasn't until after the Environmental Working Group contacted parents that ABC News began to hear rumblings of dissent.

That ABC already had signed releases which gave them full justification to broadcast the program as it existed and their willingness to subvert legitimate news information gives me serious concern for their integrity and honesty.

Perhaps the parents weren't aware how stupid they and their kids would appear by spouting the environmentalist wacko rhetoric on national TV and once that was pointed out, they began to rethink their kids involvement. The fact that this denies valuable information to the American public at large regarding the truth about the global warming hysteria is certainly of a far lesser value than is protecting their little darlings from national embarrassment, don't you think?

Also, it seems that the kids were well aware that there are 1,000 scientists who signed a document stating the horrendous threat of global warming. What they were never told about was the 17,000 scientists whose position is:

IF global warming is real, there is no evidence that it is a bad thing outside the alarmists who are charging forward fueled more by emotion than intellect.

Apparently the Environmental Working Group has been trying to get Stossel fired for the past year or so because they don't like his style of reporting. Since he presents an honest, objective report, what have they to fear? Or is this merely more of the Left's continual effort to silence dissent with their views, beliefs, behaviors and perceptions?

At least the edited version is still scheduled to air this Friday evening.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Is it no wonder...

That network revenues are plunging, that many leftist newspapers have cleaned house, and that Newsmax and Drudge grow and Salon is in financial trouble. My generation is reaching its peak earnings and spending years and we are tired of being lied to and being portrayed as the cause of everything bad in America. The pendulum is swinging back.