What do you think of John Stossel?

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zephyrprime

zephyrprime

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I find his tone to be kind of grating. He's always comes off as condescending and irratated. This sort of demeanor is alright at times but he does it too much. But I like his factual reporting.
 
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M4tth3wV

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I've seen him a lot over the years and a couple thumbs up.

He's alittle grainy but usually no political biased, which is very hard to find.

 
Dissipate

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I only saw one segment he did. His viewpoints seem economically conservative.
 
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BaliBabyDoc

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He's like a stopped clock . . . right twice a day. I only caught the tale end of his segment but it was a ridiculous juxtaposition of information and images. When discussing pollution related to new power sources they showed a picture of a cooling tower from a nuclear plant and then said the air is much cleaner than in the past . . . yet he failed to mention those plants are storing tons of radioactive waste with no facility for permanent storage (or a definitively safe means of transport). He queried elementary age children on diptheria but he was scarcely more informed than them about what diptheria is and why it is no longer a threat in America. He showed an interview with ONE guy in a food kitchen line that has an apartment, color cable TV, and a microwave. Naturally, this one guy is proof that poverty isn't a problem.

After each voiceover by Stossel some "suit" would be his "Yes Man" but both were less than genuine. The Hudson is cleaner due to regulation. Houston, Dallas, and LA air is cleaner due to regulations. Children are vaccinated against diptheria, tetanus, pertussis et al due to public health initiatives and regulations. Individual cars are less polluting due to regulations. People are safer at work due to regulations.

Despite all of his bluster Stossel's takehome (although he did not say it), "life is much better in America today . . . thanks to all those regulations I complain about every week."
 
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Moonbeam

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Bali, you put out a great read. I always enjoy your posts. For you I have great respect. I'm glad you post here.
 
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Bali, you put out a great read. I always enjoy your posts. For you I have great respect. I'm glad you post here.
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Attaching your lips to people's buttocks is a disgusting habit.
 
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Genesys

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ill have to agree with the other guys that say the Stossel is a little grateing. i guess he just needs to let a little more happiness show through instead acting like some guy who is constantly being ripped off.
 
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Moonbeam

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Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Bali, you put out a great read. I always enjoy your posts. For you I have great respect. I'm glad you post here.
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Attaching your lips to people's buttocks is a disgusting habit.
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I have no idea why you mention that here, but I'm sorry to hear you trained for it your whole life.
 
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i think he's funny, but a little sad that he has to do that kinda trash format. i remember him doing the same jig when i was little.
 
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Napalm

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Ignorant, biased, sloppy... His sort of "journalism" contributes to the simplistic thinking that ultimately does nothing but "dumb-down" America.

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Bleep

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It has only been a few years ago the Stossel did a article on TMJ and the denists that tell you that you have it and got sued, he lost. Enough said, no credibility.

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I like him as a reporter, and have enjoyed several of his specials
 
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Stossel belongs on The Fox Cartoon Network. He's terrible. He slants almost everything he does. He doesn't let the witness do the talking, and when they do he often undercuts what they say, just like Hannity and O'Reilly.

Also, he has a whiny condescension that is unbearable. And no sense of humor. I think he needs a strong anti-depressant.

Other than that.... :)

-Robert
 
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BaliBabyDoc

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It has only been a few years ago the Stossel did a article on TMJ and the denists that tell you that you have it and got sued, he lost. Enough said, no credibility.
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Admittedly, I'm not sure I believe many dentists know what they are talking about when it comes to TMJ. They can certainly diagnose it but I think some of their treatments are poo.

Stossel needs a better producer. Someone capable (and willing) to call him to task for focusing on evidence that supports his predetermined conclusions. For instance, the Hudson is much cleaner than it was a decade ago but many waterways in America are much worse. We've done a wonderful job with many types of infectious disease in America but globally many (petussis, TB, hepatitis A/B/C, HIV) are a tremendous burden. And here at home we still lose 20-30k a year to influenza not to mention the billions spent in taking care of people with influenza. Curiously, he didn't mention obesity at all. He didn't mention the rising morbidity and mortality due to asthma (particularly amongst city dwelling people with low incomes).

As for poverty, America's cities (except in the South) are arguably the best places in the Western Hemisphere (outside of Canada and Cuba) to be poor. But considering even our President is committed to low-wage immigrant labor in America, what prospects do poor Americans have for upward mobility?

 
DT4K

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TMJ surgery is a scam. The surgery almost never helps and usually makes things worse.
I'm not familiar with the piece on this, but if he called the dentists to task, more power to him.
I guess all the liberals are just pissed now that Stossel just showed everyone what a complete and utter moron Al Sharpton is.
Yeah, he's a really bad reporter because he told the truth about the liberal myth that the poor and middle class have to pay all the taxes.
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Bleep

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Yeah, he's a really bad reporter because he told the truth about the liberal myth that the poor and middle class have to pay all the taxes
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You are full of CRAP to your eyeballs, I am as leberal as they come and politics have nothing to do with it except for you radical right wingers that think no wrong, do no wrong and never make bad decisions, and always tell the absolute truth. You are so close to God that you will ascend to heaven upon death to meet person to person with God and only Republicans will be there. You are intolerent and un-american

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chess9

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Shanti:

Stoessel is so very sloppy and obvious in his approach it's hard to miss the slant. If someone is doing an analytical piece they should let the facts do the talking. His bias is so obvious you'd need to be brain dead to miss it. If you like his slant then say so. But don't pretend-as you appear to be doing-that his work is not biased. The network should call his pieces opinion, and not news or research or the TRUTH as they imply. He has been given way too much leeway by the network, IMHO. Unfortunately, ethical news delivery is an endangered species in America. Apparently, Americans do not enjoy the intellectual challenge of taking two or more diverse points of view and reaching their own conclusions. They want the conclusions canned for them. It's the McDonald's version they want, not Larousse Gastronomique. :)

-Robert
 
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BaliBabyDoc

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TMJ surgery is a scam. The surgery almost never helps and usually makes things worse.
I'm not familiar with the piece on this, but if he called the dentists to task, more power to him.
I guess all the liberals are just pissed now that Stossel just showed everyone what a complete and utter moron Al Sharpton is.
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Your post is an excellent example of what's wrong with Stossel and to a large extent FOX. You take a little fact (variability in the TMJ phenotype/etiology) add in associated facts (variability in efficacy for various interventions) to substantiate conclusions that don't naturally follow from the evidence you've provided.

Why don't you peruse the various clinical trials of maxillofacial surgery on PubMed and PROVE that TMJ surgery is a scam. Now I assume you must be a DDS,DMD so why does
your national board continue to endorse the use of surgical interventions for TMJ. Now if Stossel is saying some dentists are qualified neither to diagnose nor treat many forms of TMJ he's absolutely correct. But alas Stossel lacks such discipline. He cuts a broad swath which could NEVER be substantiated on the evidence he provides . . . accordingly he lost the court case. The sad part is that Stossel actually has a point from time to time but his arrogance and ignorance invariably diminishes his credibility.

How the hell did Al Sharpton get into this discussion? Showing Al Sharpton can be a tool is the equivalent of proving that poo stinks.
 
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