Someone interpret "The Note" for me

[waylon]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

It looks an awful lot like a right wing thing, but I know better. It is also mentioned on newsmax so Im quite sure the right is lapping it up. I read it 3 times and am still not sure of their intent...is it right wing media bashing or is there something I missed?

On a side note, I met Stossel 3 years ago. He's a nice guy but dont get in his way, unless you have a martini in your hand!

[theorist]

1. What is "The Note"? Have I been under a rock? n/t

[waylon]

2. Sorry, forgot the link

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

The note is a daily summary of political goings on, news etc put out by ABC News.

[fob]

3. Link? And stossel is a world class asshole

nt

[waylon]

5. Hes actually a nice guy...

I didnt talk with him much, certainly didnt go political but he was a fairly welcoming guy considering that Im a nobody and he's a big TV yahoo.

[grasswire]

4. The Note...

...is ABC's political newsletter for Washington insiders. It's read widely in the Washington press corps and has been fairly influential at shaping coverage. Unfortunately, it's a clique-oriented, clubby thing. Kind of cutesy at times. I stopped reading it last year. I didn't like the way they were nanny-ing reporters, telling them what to cover.

You can sign up for it, no charge.

A better page that's new is The Washington Post's new "White House Briefing" by Dan Froomkin. It's just outstanding every day, and a beautiful thing about it is that he sources Internet bloggers and sites as well as print and broadcast media.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/

[waylon]

6. Wasnt he focused on the Peterson thing for a month?

I have never read it so I dont know, but I heard he focused alot of his time on Peterson's arrest etc for a good while.

[SoCalDem]

7. John Stossel is a libertarian

of course it's easy to be a libertarian if you are already rich , which he is.. He constantly "knocks" regulations, and picks apart anything that is even remotely "liberal"..

He is not our friend.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Stossel is a first class media toady

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/stossel011002.cfm

John Stossel, television's million-dollar bonus baby, has given new meaning to the old journalistic maxim "Follow the money."

People who worked with him in the early 1980s at WCBS-TV in New York remember an easygoing, dedicated reporter who produced reliable though somewhat lightweight stories exposing a vast array of minor consumer frauds and business abuses.

Ralph Nader liked him. "But that was when the 'little guy' was the zeitgeist," a WCBS colleague recalls. "Now it's big business."

And Stossel followed the zeitgeist, a move that has paid off handsomely for him and his current employer, ABC News.