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He cuts people off when he interviews them. His reporting is intended to be inflammatory and one-sided. He is a douche bag.
Stossel's piece on health care in America was pretty good for the most part. It wasn't supportive of government controlled health care but it also wasn't supportive of the current system either except to say that the insurance companies aren't as ruthless as Moore made them out to be.
I think the main point he was trying to make was that as long there is a third party be it insurance companies or the government is in control that costs will continue to go up and service will go down.
The whole Cuba thing was a distracting and poorly planned part of the movie, only set in there to grab attention. Who knows what Cuba is doing.
*Opps this is wrong- thanks Grimm (Stossel Lover
http://www.videosift.com/video/John-Stossel-Slapped-by-Wrestler-Language-NSFW
Yeah, I misread it. The bit that upset me was:
"Her husband died of kidney cancer after their health-insurance company denied payment for a bone-marrow transplant that might have saved his life. Ms. Pierce's rage is palpable as she repeats the word her insurers used in response to her husband's request. "They denied it," she sneers. "Said it was 'experimental.'""
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118964470258225901.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
So. He quotes this lady, and then never contacts her about it.
Even though I misread it, it doesn't change the fact that he puts a lot of effort into being a douche bag.
I don't think any of his pieces are balanced. He interviews Moore and then selectively edits their interview to make him sound like a jackass. You can't call that fair, and it certainly isn't journalism. If he presented his arguments as solely exhibiting a single opinion then I wouldn't have an issue. My beef with him is when he says he is presenting the facts and the whole story.
A great example is his piece on Global Warming, which regardless of my scientific opinion about it I thought it was complete hogwash.
I think it hard to really get an unbiased opinion, but I think there are international health studies conducted by the UN that might give you perspective. I would look on Wikipedia on the Sicko page and see if there are any good links. You can probably find some nice references.
I think Olbermann might not actually always be a douche bag but sometimes when he is interviewing republicans he is a total douche.
Example please.
teeeehee
hey...All you Public Heath Care screamers?? What would be 100 times better than socialized-type medicine?
Policing the intake, of the poison that causes MOST of the things the current heath care system has been burdened with, since the beast began growing heads:
Stop poisoning yer bodies with food, and keep privatized health care.
Allow citizen-only access to the current pay-as-you-go method, and allow the "mostly" illegal members of the country (u.s) access to some in-country, not regulated by the AMA or other such entities, health-care provided by volunteers, drop-out med students who will work for food, or others who practice out of their vehicles or homes??
Funny thing is, you would be able to give everyone access, for free, if people were not ignorant of the evil they do their own systems, the disease and cancer, they bring upon themselves......The true culprits of disease, and the need for a re-vamping of a broken system, are advertisers, pharmaceutical interests, and fast-food empires, allowed to build more death-stands, every minute, of every day.....oh...forgot to mention the sad excuse for public education, and people's own, selfish desire.
My point is that John Stossel(and you can throw Micheal Moore in there, too), and people like him, represent a problem with American media and the American discourse. Instead of attempting a fair and equal handed debate people scream at the top of their lungs, or cherry pick facts and present them as the truth.
That annoys me. Hence, John Stossel is a Douche Bag.
And it drives me CRAZY that the President and Congress play tit-for-tat instead of making decisions that are good for America.
You are of course entitled to your opinion of this man. But with these false claims and accusations I don't think you are convincing anyone that they should share that opinion.
I think he does selectively edit the video, but I will watch it again.
What I dislike with his style of journalism is that (although I know it is not intended to) he does not present both sides of an argument. He seems to intend to be inflammatory, and he neglects to mention pertinent facts about experts that he interviews(that I didn't mention before, but I will do it now). For example, that I know of, John Christy was the only scientist on his panel that published data showing that global warming doesn't happen. Did Stossel mention the fact that in a subsequent paper Chirsty's finding were called into question and they had to publish a correction? This is from Wikipedia: "A February 2000 story about organic vegetables on 20/20 included statements by Stossel that tests had shown that neither organic nor conventional produce samples contained any pesticide residue, and that organic food was more likely to be contaminated by E. coli bacteria" which turned out to be completely false. But what I really don't like is that I don't think inflammatory interviews are what America needs right now when we talk about things that matter.
Instead, people should have real conversations about these issues and discuss them completely. Giving each side a fair place to present their points.
Perhaps, it is the way I read it, but maybe we should tone down our discussion. Other than that it is fun to talk about these things.
MH