[antimedia] antimedia: According to John Stossel....

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According to John Stossel....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1147309159.shtml


   ....[1]Everything You Know is Wrong. Stossel ought to know. He's been
   a reporter for a very long time, but one with a big difference from
   most -- honesty and integrity.

     Almost every week, there is another story about a potential menace.
     Reporters credulously accept the activists' scares: While I've been
     a reporter, I've been asked to do alarmist reports about hair dye,
     dry cleaning, coffee, chewing gum, saccharin, cyclamates,
     NutraSweet, nitrites, Red No. 2 dye, electric blankets, video
     display terminals, dental fillings, cellular phones, vaccines,
     potato chips, farmed salmon, Teflon, antiperspirants and even
     rubber duckies.
     I refused to do most of those stories. If one-tenth of what the
     reporters suggested was happening did happen, there would be mass
     death. The opposite is true: Despite exposure to radiation and all
     those nasty new chemicals, Americans today live longer than ever.

   If we had more reporters who simply reported the facts, and refused to
   cover "stories" based on junk science and activists' lies, we would
   all be better off. (Hat tip to [2]Austin Bay.)

References

   1. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/05/everything_you_know_is_wrong.html
   2. http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=1087