Longtime '20/20' sleuth John Stossel is leaving ABC after a 28-year run on the Friday night news magazine. He'll be moving over to Fox Business Network for his own weekly one-hour program starting in October, he announced on Tuesday.
"It's time for a change," he explained on his ABC News blog. "In one month, I leave ABC News." Check out a pair of his signature segments, Give Me a Break >>
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Stossel, who joined '20/20' in 1981 and upgraded to co-anchor in 2003, will also make regular appearances on Fox News Channel. An opening in his ABC contract allowed him to jump ship for Fox, where he is expected to sign a multi-year deal. He won't be an unfamiliar face to the Fox faithful. The outspoken Libertarian has been a frequent guest on 'The O'Reilly Factor' and 'The Big Story.'
"I'm grateful to ABC News for allowing me to do stories that challenged conventional wisdom, and occasionally enraged many of its viewers. But it's said that everyone should change jobs every 7 years. I've been at ABC for 28 years ..."
He defended the move by saying "Fox offers me more airtime" to do the kinds of stories he's interested in.
On '20/20,' Stossel is known for his hour-long specials and for taking a skeptical and in-depth view of meaty subjects like censorship and big government. He always prefaced the segments with a grumpy "Give Me a Break."
The mustachioed journo, 62, is just the latest ABC anchor to vacate his chair. Last week, Charlie Gibson announced he was retiring from 'World News,' prompting 'Good Morning America' host Diane Sawyer to switch over to the primetime newscast. On the Subject of Mustache's ... This Guy's 'Stache Keeps Him Up Nights § Mustache Styles
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Monica that just shows your ignorance and bigotry and how close minded you truly are.Monica, What a pretty name for such an ugly person.Your parents or some nutjob did a great job brainwashing you hun. Actually watch an event unfold that is nto a political event so your biases do not enter into it,then go watch the actual reporting on NBC ABC and FOX...IF the event was anyways negative of any of the far lefts pet projects or anyone that is one of them,it wil never be shown on ABC CBS AND NBC only FOX woud air it...NOW if an event should happen that was negative to lets say BUSH IT would show on ALL networks but only ABC NBS AND CBS would tell you over and over again how EVIL BUSH was and that he must have caused 5 other events to happen because of course YOU KNOW he is like totally evil because we Liberals say so because like they told us so.
Ultra conservative??? I find more points of view on Fox than on any of the other main stream networks. You may even find out that they are not all Republicans too.
Now I will here from John Stossel because I have not watched ABC news in years. I do not agree with everything he says but he is a lot better than the other crazies on ABC.
LeftWing Hack News monopoly Destroyed by a 50 year ruse of objective journalism Thank you Fox News & Fox Business Channel also new rumours of Fox Business buying msnbc from cash strapped GE NBC bye bye Air Anti-america flunk sportcaster Kolbermann
You are an adorable lady - Bless you for your clear and sincere comments in a geopolitical economic and social revolution in this wonderful country - our U.S.A..
Stossel seems to be a fair minded person. I hope he continues to be fair minded and objective. It seems that FOX is becoming the last bastion of journalism on TV.
What you get on the other "news" channels is pablum and koolaid.
Good for you John. BTW.... I wouldn't exactly call ABC, NBC, or CBS main stream anymore. I almost never watch them anymore as most of my friends do either. So yesterday. They still operate like it was the 20th century
I was just reading all the comments, perhaps I missed it, but Mr. Stossel is joining the Fox BUSINESS network. This is a separate entity. It is not the foxNEWs network. I have no clue what he will be doing on there, but I suspect he will do his usual fine job. I think judging by the comments, if we could tone down the rhetoric and have reasonable conversation and come to compromises it would serve us better than this hateful attitude. One side or the other is not all right.....think about it.
Actually tess generally I woud agree with what you are saying...more often then not Someone can't be always right and the other side can't be always wrong ...But in this case you shoud do your research and find out you are for the most part WRONG on this accord.John Stossel was one of the Only Decent people on 20/20 or on any of the other shows on ABC CBS or NBC... You realy want to see HateMongering check out Olbermann that the HATERS in here love. That should tell you something. Glenn Beck though he might act silly and bring some levity to his show is an extremely decent and kind guy. He makes his show animated but he doesn't act like a POMPOUS AS$ like Olbermann or Charie Gibson(who used to act decent many years ago)Chris Mathews always the negative attack pitbull after anyone he thinks might not agree with his Political Bent. Sorry but do your research on this one ..You seem ike an open minded person and at least you have that going for you. =) good luck finding the truth....once you do you wil be shocked and very upset at What most of the news channels do to pull the wool over peoples eyes(including yours)..Example NBC shown one of Bush's last state of the union( i generaly turn them all off after a few minutes)Something struck me as ODD Bush was speaking and then he kept pausing for long periods....IF you were un educated you would think what is this $%^& doing leaving such long pauses before he speaks again...weird huh? I then changed the channel to see what was going on and turned to CBS and FOX and found out that he was pausing whie the people were cheering in the background as it was about something that could benefit all Parties he was talking about. Turns out NBC was adjusting the Sound Down to cut out the cheering in the background to try and make it look like Bush was just pausing for no reason..This of course would be so NBC and the far LEFT could say dang ook at that White guy..he's an idiot he can't even give a speech without pausing for ong periods of time..... YES even then NBC was manipulating the NEWS and pushing an AGENDA...That was so OPEN of an attack and dirty politics but i guess if you are a moron that is gued to everything NBC far left slant says then you would not examine what is happening and question it. EXACTLY what NBC wants you to do. BE a LITTLE sheep and never question them.OF course that was very telling of where NBC mindset is/was and made me think OK changing the channel and taking notes to not watch too much of NBC's news as it more then likely is BS....I will still watch it here and there but i wil check out all the other channels and then read original reports of anything they cover also.
Jorge, I'll hesitate in calling names, but you mentioned the level of education of audience watching NBS on Bush 43's speech and I have to question yours. Working as I did in the industry, I can tell you the only reason the applause was muter was that some networks use only the speaker's microphones and other mix in the audience ambient sound. These are consistent regardless of the political party speaking on the major 3 networks, as well as PBS and CNN. Both Fox and MSNBC seem to slant, MSNBC more so. So, you're wrong on your main topic. More so you're wrong to suggest that Tess's call for civility is wrong...not that I'm not showing my bias clearly. Finally, I'm also interested in seeing the conflicting reports of right-wing bloggers people here that Charlie Gibson is a super liberal and thus worked at ABC or he is good conservative and thus he quit. Oh, and Beck a "decent kind guy" would I be decent and kind to call you a racist?
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Monica that just shows your ignorance and bigotry and how close minded you truly are.Monica, What a pretty name for such an ugly person.Your parents or some nutjob did a great job brainwashing you hun. Actually watch an event unfold that is nto a political event so your biases do not enter into it,then go watch the actual reporting on NBC ABC and FOX...IF the event was anyways negative of any of the far lefts pet projects or anyone that is one of them,it wil never be shown on ABC CBS AND NBC only FOX woud air it...NOW if an event should happen that was negative to lets say BUSH IT would show on ALL networks but only ABC NBS AND CBS would tell you over and over again how EVIL BUSH was and that he must have caused 5 other events to happen because of course YOU KNOW he is like totally evil because we Liberals say so because like they told us so.
Ultra conservative??? I find more points of view on Fox than on any of the other main stream networks. You may even find out that they are not all Republicans too.
what a huge step down.....how embaressing...leaving abc news for a rag
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Now I will here from John Stossel because I have not watched ABC news in years. I do not agree with everything he says but he is a lot better than the other crazies on ABC.
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LeftWing Hack News monopoly Destroyed by a 50 year ruse of objective journalism Thank you Fox News & Fox Business Channel also new rumours of Fox Business buying msnbc from cash strapped GE NBC bye bye Air Anti-america flunk sportcaster Kolbermann
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Debbie,
You are an adorable lady - Bless you for your clear and sincere comments in a geopolitical economic and social revolution in this wonderful country - our U.S.A..
Contemarco
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I always love reading the comments after stories like these. SO MANY HATERS!!!
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Libertarian = Republican. They're just too cowardly to admit it.
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I also find fox difficult to watch I am not political but they are very negative and a bit childish I think John Stossel could do better.
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Stossel seems to be a fair minded person. I hope he continues to be fair minded and objective. It seems that FOX is becoming the last bastion of journalism on TV.
What you get on the other "news" channels is pablum and koolaid.
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Fox news is the last bastion of wackos like you rugclit.
Good for you John. BTW.... I wouldn't exactly call ABC, NBC, or CBS main stream anymore. I almost never watch them anymore as most of my friends do either. So yesterday.
They still operate like it was the 20th century
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where johnny depp he has a stache too?
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ORCHID I KNOW IT TAKES A LOT OF FERTLIZER TO RAISE
ORCHIDS. I SEE YOUVE HAD YOUR SHARE
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Way to go John. 'bout time you got away from the Obama politics of ABC. Good luck at Fox.
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Good luck and good riddance. The guys a dweeb.
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Finally ... Just your basic conservative!
I was just reading all the comments, perhaps I missed it, but Mr. Stossel is joining the Fox BUSINESS network. This is a separate entity. It is not the foxNEWs network. I have no clue what he will be doing on there, but I suspect he will do his usual fine job. I think judging by the comments, if we could tone down the rhetoric and have reasonable conversation and come to compromises it would serve us better than this hateful attitude. One side or the other is not all right.....think about it.
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Actually tess generally I woud agree with what you are saying...more often then not Someone can't be always right and the other side can't be always wrong ...But in this case you shoud do your research and find out you are for the most part WRONG on this accord.John Stossel was one of the Only Decent people on 20/20 or on any of the other shows on ABC CBS or NBC... You realy want to see HateMongering check out Olbermann that the HATERS in here love. That should tell you something. Glenn Beck though he might act silly and bring some levity to his show is an extremely decent and kind guy. He makes his show animated but he doesn't act like a POMPOUS AS$ like Olbermann or Charie Gibson(who used to act decent many years ago)Chris Mathews always the negative attack pitbull after anyone he thinks might not agree with his Political Bent. Sorry but do your research on this one ..You seem ike an open minded person and at least you have that going for you. =) good luck finding the truth....once you do you wil be shocked and very upset at What most of the news channels do to pull the wool over peoples eyes(including yours)..Example NBC shown one of Bush's last state of the union( i generaly turn them all off after a few minutes)Something struck me as ODD Bush was speaking and then he kept pausing for long periods....IF you were un educated you would think what is this $%^& doing leaving such long pauses before he speaks again...weird huh? I then changed the channel to see what was going on and turned to CBS and FOX and found out that he was pausing whie the people were cheering in the background as it was about something that could benefit all Parties he was talking about. Turns out NBC was adjusting the Sound Down to cut out the cheering in the background to try and make it look like Bush was just pausing for no reason..This of course would be so NBC and the far LEFT could say dang ook at that White guy..he's an idiot he can't even give a speech without pausing for ong periods of time..... YES even then NBC was manipulating the NEWS and pushing an AGENDA...That was so OPEN of an attack and dirty politics but i guess if you are a moron that is gued to everything NBC far left slant says then you would not examine what is happening and question it. EXACTLY what NBC wants you to do. BE a LITTLE sheep and never question them.OF course that was very telling of where NBC mindset is/was and made me think OK changing the channel and taking notes to not watch too much of NBC's news as it more then likely is BS....I will still watch it here and there but i wil check out all the other channels and then read original reports of anything they cover also.
Jorge,
I'll hesitate in calling names, but you mentioned the level of education of audience watching NBS on Bush 43's speech and I have to question yours. Working as I did in the industry, I can tell you the only reason the applause was muter was that some networks use only the speaker's microphones and other mix in the audience ambient sound. These are consistent regardless of the political party speaking on the major 3 networks, as well as PBS and CNN. Both Fox and MSNBC seem to slant, MSNBC more so. So, you're wrong on your main topic.
More so you're wrong to suggest that Tess's call for civility is wrong...not that I'm not showing my bias clearly.
Finally, I'm also interested in seeing the conflicting reports of right-wing bloggers people here that Charlie Gibson is a super liberal and thus worked at ABC or he is good conservative and thus he quit.
Oh, and Beck a "decent kind guy" would I be decent and kind to call you a racist?