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Title: Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
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| Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by HarperCollins this guy just makes sense | | Best book I've read in a long time. I went into it with no expectations, and came out of it agreeing with almost everything the guy said. Absolutely worth the purchase price, or even check it out from a library if you're not sure you'll like it. I can't remember a book where I had this kind of a reaction. I'd say maybe 10% of the things John Stossel wrote I disagreed with strongly (which is fine, it still gives you something to think about) and another 10% I was very much torn between two viewpoints on, but the remaining 80% of the book I found myself unconsciously shaking my head yes and steadfastly agreeing with his viewpoints completely. His ideas and observaions are just so logical and plain-sense, it's amazing no one else writes like this. Recommended times a thousand! | | Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by HarperCollins An Interesting Afternoon Read | I read this book in a few hours one afternoon. It was a collection of anecdotes from his many years as an investigative reporter. Stossel also shares the experiences that opened his eyes to the biases, both conscious and unconscious, that are prevalent in American Media. It is encouraging that despite his superiors universal disagreement with his viewpoint he was allowed to proceed and prosper.
Stossel shares first hand the many experiences over the last 30 years that have formed his libertarian world view. It is mostly compelling and persuasive. It also apparent that Stossel has read a great deal, I detected many allusions to Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand. Traditional big government liberals are not likely to enjoy this book, however, reading it would do them some good.
This book was rather lightweight but a thoroughly enjoyable read.
| | Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by HarperCollins John tells it like it is! | | It is so refreshing to have someone in the media accurately talk about issues that are importmant to the American people. | | Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by HarperCollins An awesome read! | Contains what all narrow-minded left-wing lemmings hate the most... The TRUTH!
| | Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by HarperCollins stossel's journey and growth of ideas | I've been a fan of John Stossel for more than 20 years.
I've always found his "give me a break" segments very entertaining. But what strikes me about the book is his growth of ideas from the "common" knowledge (lawyers are out to help you, the goverment is out to help you) to "leave me alone".
He ties in his views with his life. He's very much the
"accidental" media personality. While he's called a "right-winger" but some, he's really a libertarian. if you have an open mind, an watch his reports, you should definitely read this book. | | Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by HarperCollins Book Description | Ballooning government?
Millionaire welfare queens?
Tort lawyers run amok?
A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars?
John Stossel says, "Give me a break." When he hit the airwaves thirty years ago, Stossel helped create a whole new category of news, dedicated to protecting and informing consumers. As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers. But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on: While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored. And while reporters were teaming up with lawyers and legislators to stick it to big business, they seldom reported the ways the free market made life better. In Give Me a Break, Stossel explains how ambitious bureaucrats, intellectually lazy reporters, and greedy lawyers make your life worse even as they claim to protect your interests. Taking on such sacred cows as the FDA, the War on Drugs, and scaremongering environmental activists -- and backing up his trademark irreverence with careful reasoning and research -- he shows how the problems that government tries and fails to fix can be solved better by the extraordinary power of the free market. He traces his journey from cub reporter to 20/20 co-anchor, revealing his battles to get his ideas to the public, his struggle to overcome stuttering, and his eventual realization that, for years, much of his reporting missed the point. Stossel concludes the book with a provocative blueprint for change: a simple plan in the spirit of the Founding Fathers to ensure that America remains a place "where free minds -- and free markets -- make good things happen." |
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