Reaction to my Health Care Piece Being Pulled

Well John ABC saw their Obama infomercial bite the dust in the ratings ..no one watched. so they did not want to take a chance on you..besides you probably would have to clear it with the leftist at ABC if you said anything derogatory about the "prince of liars"

How can it be possible that anyone doesn't know all the gory details and rumors about Michael Jackson's death already. And I hate the false sense of reverence for someone that was little more than a joke in the present day. Even among many that admired him would have ridiculed him if his heart hadn't given up that day for being part of yet another bizarre Michael Jackson footnote. Sure he displayed his talent for years but he hadn't displayed that in ages.

Sir: i wouldn't watched your special...mainly because i believe you are the voice of reason in the wilderness of liberal bias...please keep kicking and getting the common sense out there...btw: how about doing your own show on FOX? it would be a huge hit!

God bless you,

Janet Ney

oops! i wanted to say 'i would have watched'...sorry...

Not that I'm biased or anything... ;) .... but is there a chance you might interview early contenders for the 2012 presidential election? It would be nice to see what their positions are on free market economics, liberty and the Constitution.

We were all sick of it, for instance: finally, only after the climate bill passed the house did news stations talk about it. Even fox viewers fell victim to this and thousands of us signed a petition on twitter trying to get them to shelve MJ and get back to real news. Maybe if they'd reported on the bill, more people would've called their representatives opposing it. Of course, like our news channels, our representatives ignored our cries and voted for it anyway. We stopped having a say long ago. TV doesn't represent what we want to see, and congress only represents their own wallets and ideologies.
Personally I had to rely on C-SPAN and Twitter messages about Iran to get the news I was concerned about.
If I had the money and the wherewithal I'd run for office and buy a TV station

If you can't get it on ABC, please release it online, thinking people would appreciate it.

Well I can't say how ABC is doing with Jackson coverage, I am an avid Fox News viewer... But I can tell you that I have c0ompletely avoid FNC while they are covering Jackson, so are most of the people I know... I have heard buzz that they have the lowest ratings in a while since they went on the Jackson tirade and it is well deserved...That's a ten minute news story, in a world that is as messed-up ass ours is right at this moment, people want substance... I would have rather watched your report, and many people like me also would... The news channels let OJ-coverage jade them, they now think Springer news in king... They need some reality slapped into them (my opinion).

Forgive the horrible typing =)

You rock, John! That's right; you have to take the bad with the good. Just like in life. The power of the purse and the remote will triumph. Even though much power has been upsurped by the elites, they can't take that from us. Too bad the network didn't see the market in giving viewers something substantive to see and an opportunity to escape the MJ coverage. Thank goodness for the internet. Blessings to you and yours!

John is there any possibility that you'd be able to put the special in the ABC video archives online?

That way the folks that would like to see it still can, and all of your hard work doesn't go for naught.

ABC doesn't get a spot on our television anymore since they chose to do State-run TV with no opposing voices permitted, but I would still watch your specials online.

MJ is not God, he's not the President, this level of coverage and distraction is mind-boggling. The House of Representatives pushed through the largest tax raise in history Friday with a 13th-hour addition and objected to a 15-minute recess so that the full bill could be present on the floor - but the public gets to hear NONE of that. Instead, we're bombarded with information for 4 days straight now on a man who paid off children to keep quiet about what happened at Neverland Ranch.

What is going on in the minds of these producers? It's insanity.

John, I'd rather watch you tear into healthcare for an hour than watch one minute of coverage on a dead pedophile.

As for the snark on the free market, in a truly free market, ABC would release your rights and allow you and your producer to air the show on another network. Good luck with that. :)

John, you are my hero. Hang in there. I am torn, should you stay in the belly of the biased beast or move to Fox. Pluses and minuses to both. Bless you indeed.

I don't even agree with Jan's assertion that Stossel was hoisted on his own petard. (She so tickled herself with that phrase she repeated it multiple times in the comment section.)

I had never heard it before, so I looked it up. It means "injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others."

I'm not sure that Stossel was hurt, really, especially since he seemed to indicate the piece would air at a later date. And I certainly don't get the impression he honestly thinks this will change the world.

Wow, reading this post - in my head it has nearly the same kind of sound or tone or w/e as one of your shows. lol

lol. He was a hard core devotee of the free market and the free market turned around and bit him. "Listen" to his tone as he writes about it. He was ticked.

Could you change jobs with Glenn Beck? You deserve more air time. Libertarians would be better served by your commentary than by Beck's. He's ok, but diminishes the libertarian message when he cries, does impressions, plays with dead fish, etc.

@Jan - perhaps he was irritated. That doesn't equate to an injury.

Stossel has been in the business for a long time. I suspect that he knew there was a chance he piece would get bumped as soon as he heard MJ died.

Those of us that believe in freedom understand with perfect clarity that we have to put up with a lot of nonsense as a result. Heck, we even know that there's always a huge chance we will fail in our endeavors.

We don't count our irritations as injuries though, because we learn from them and adapt.

Like I said....you might see people crabbing that ABC made the wrong decision, but we all agree they had the right to make it. Their interests aren't always Stossel's interests, and both parties know that.

John, don't encourage Jan. Trust me on this one.

lol.

John,
We need shows that have some teeth and look at current issues with a critical eye. You have always done that. What I have notice is that 20/20 is covering less of these current key issues and more of the tabloid fare. I am not surprised at all that the network dropped your Health Care story for a front page tabloid story. It's a very sad statement for the direction journalism has taken and it's sad to see 20/20 going down the same road.

John if there ever was a time we needed a "Give Me Break" segment it's NOW. But they seem to have disappeared. So let me do one for you.

Drop an important Health Care piece for coverage of Michael Jackson's Death when the country in dire straights?...."Give Me A Break" :)