Why I Left Network TV to Build Stossel TV

EDITORIAL

Eight years ago, I left network TV behind. I worried that moving to social media wouldn’t work -- that not enough people wanted news alongside cat videos.

I also worried that not enough of you would donate to pay for it.

Unlike most of what you find on Fox News, CNN, etc., we at Stossel TV do weeks of research. Before we post, seven people fact-check, edit and double-check each other’s work.

Would enough of you watch and donate to pay for that?

Yes!

This month, my channels reached a billion views. Thank you!

I am often surprised by which videos you choose to watch.

Millions of you watched my long video with National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, about how the NSA invades Americans’ privacy.

All my career, I kept videos short. We thought that’s what it took to get people to watch. But Snowden, even at almost two hours, is our mostwatched YouTube video. Our mostwatched Twitter videos are about government failures, like former President Joe Biden’s promise to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations. In three years, the government built seven.

I wish politicians left such things to capitalists.

On Instagram and Rumble, my mostwatched video is one that took NYC’s government to task for spending $2 million to build a public bathroom in a park.

When I confronted the parks commissioner, pointing out that big houses cost less than his bathroom, he smiled and said “$2 million was a good deal” because the government pays union wages. “It’s a good thing.” Our mostwatched Facebook video is one in which scientists put common climate change fears into perspective.

Climatologist Patrick Michaels: “It’s warmed up around one degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy doubled in the industrialized democracies. Yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree, and the entire system crashes? That’s the most absurd belief!”

That video got 24 million views before, sadly, Facebook censored it. That’s so wrong.

I began my NYC TV career doing environmental reporting. I won awards exposing filth in city air, in the Hudson River, and pointing out the need for pollution control.

That was then.

Now activists fake environmental threats to raise money.

MSNBC: “Climate change could create a massive global food shortage!”

Former President Barack Obama believed that, saying climate change “is already making it more difficult to produce food.”

The opposite is true. Food production has increased dramatically.

The zealots claim America’s bees are dying off. A “bee-pocalypse,” shrieked ABC News.

But the bee population has been going up!

They claim polar bears are disappearing.

But there are more polar bears now. It’s good we now have alternatives to socalled mainstream media.

I hate that they cluelessly mock things that make life better, like capitalism.

Not only is it cruel, but “Capitalism is making you lonely,” declares Jacobin. “ C a p i t a l i s m makes us feel empty inside,” says Vox. MAGNOLIA GAZETTE “ERROR OF OPINION MAY BE TOLERATED WHERE REASON