Media Loves Big Government

By John Stossel | Reason

Reporter Sharyl Attkissons story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there.


The CBS correspondent reported on Fast and Furious, the shifting explanation for the Benghazi, Libya, attacks, and the bungled rollout of the Obamacare website. “But as time went on, it was harder to get stories on,” she says.


“There are people who simply would rather just avoid the headache of going after powers that be because of the pushback that comes with it, which has become very organized and well-financed,” she says on my TV show this week.


I left ABC for similar reasons. When I began consumer reporting, I assumed advertisers would censor me, since sponsors who paid my bosses wouldnt want criticism. But never in 30 years was a story killed because of advertiser pressure. Not once. (I hear thats changed since, and big advertisers, such as car dealers, do persuade news directors to kill stories.)


“I do a lot of reporting on corporate interests and so on, so theres pressure from that end,” says Attkisson, but “theres a competing pressure on the ideological end.” Right. Ideology affects more stories than “corporate interests.”


My ABC bosses leaned left. They liked stories about weird external threats from which government can swoop in to rescue you.


They are much less fond of complex stories in which problems are solved subtly by the dynamism of the free market. The invisible hand, after all, is invisible. It works its magic in a million places and makes adjustments every minute. Thats hard for reporters to seeespecially when theyre not looking for it.


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