ABC Pulls John Stossel’s Canadian Health Care Piece

Via Newsbusters, John Stossel had a Canadian Health Care Special which was supposed to air on ABC’s 20/20, but ABC pulled it. They didn’t do it for another Obamacare infomercial. Almost as bad – they pulled it to air a Michael Jackson special. Just what we need – more Michael Jackson. Good grief.

Stossel reacted with class in a blog post. I guess he likes his job.

Of course, maybe my bosses made the wrong choice. Maybe more viewers would have tuned in for my health care report. But the beauty of the market is that if they regularly choose wrong, they will go bankrupt. Networks better at giving the public what we want will take their business. I’d rather have viewers vote with their remotes than have elites govern our choices, making sure we watch “serious” programming.

Yes, I am sick of the coverage of Michael Jackson. I hate it that ABC didn’t run my piece. Free markets sometimes encourage pandering to the masses. I still say, bless the market. The good outweighs the bad.

If ABC had aired Stossel’s health care special I probably would have stopped boycotting the network, at least temporarily, to tune in. He’s the only thing I like about the network.