The 6:09 video below is clip from John Stossel’s show on the Fox Business Channel. During an interview with Andrew Breitbart, Stossel reveals that Breitbart had offered him an exclusive on the ACORN sting and that 20/20 would not allow him to break the story.
Not enough Americans realize that the owners of the mainstream media are progressive Democrats, and stories that expose or undermine the Democrat Party’s leftist agenda are either ignored or spiked.
I.M. Kane
AB on Stossel6:09 Video (Stossel’s revelation begins at the 2:20 mark.)
The following is a Newsbusters transcript of Stossel’s interview with Breitbart:
JOHN STOSSEL, HOST: Speaking of the mainstream media, I am a little bit ashamed of this one, but I am revealing now for the first time publicly that when I worked at 20/20, you, who I didn’t know at that time, pitched me with this story about ACORN and the sting. And I didn’t cover it. And you remember that I assume?
ANDREW BREITBART: Oh, do I ever? I mean, I’ve referenced it in speeches that I went to ABC to a producer because I realized you can’t just break a story on a blog. You have to get the mainstream media to cover it as well and so I thought what the hey.
I’ll call up John Stossel. Seems like an honest guy. Seems like he’d think that the president’s vaunted community organizing group — treating a fake prostitute and a fake pimp with service with a smile in every office except for one, I thought maybe there is a story here.
STOSSEL: What did I tell you?
BREITBART: You said that it is a story and that you would probably commit a month to a story like this because it is so blatant, but you said that the politics within ABC were just, you know, that you couldn’t do it.
STOSSEL: And that’s true. I had all kinds of good stories I couldn’t get on, but, well, I didn’t.
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