John Stossel on Media’s Big Government Bias

As a CBS correspondent, Sharyl Attkisson reported
on the shifting explanation for the Benghazi, Libya, attacks,
and the bungled rollout of the Obamacare website. But according to
Attkisson, the network got tired of her reports criticizing
government. She no longer works there.

This sounds all to familiar to John Stossel. Unfortunately, the
media powers that be love stories about weird external threats from
which government can swoop in to rescue you, writes Stossel. They
are much less fond, however, 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. That’s hard for
reporters to see—especially when they’re not looking for it.

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