His contacts there, however, got him a job at KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, where Stossel began as a newsroom gofer, working his way up to researcher to then writer.

Stossel has written two books recounting how his experiences in journalism shaped his socioeconomic views, Give Me a Break in 2004 and Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity in 2007.

Stossel was disappointed at CBS, feeling that the journalism was of a lower quality than in Portland, and disliking the lower amount of time devoted to research done there.

When President Barack Obama altered federal guidelines in April 2010 governing the employment of unpaid interns under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Stossel criticized the guidelines, appearing in a police uniform during an appearance on the Fox News program America Live, commenting, " I ’ ve built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great – I learned more from you than I did in college.

Her career dates back to the 50s, and her current prominence at ABC is largely due to celebrity interviews, with a long running co-anchorship on 20 / 20 with Hugh Downs and, later, John Stossel until 2004, and her overlapping morning infotainment show The View.

When John Stossel accused USAID of not funding DDT because it wasn't " politically correct ," Anne Peterson, the agency's assistant administrator for global health, replied that " I believe that the strategies we are using are as effective as spraying with DDT ...

" When Stossel asked swinging couples whether they worry their spouse will " find they like someone else better ", one male replied, " People in the swinging community swing for a reason.

In his decades as a reporter, Stossel has received numerous honors and awards, including 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club.

" Stossel characterizes himself has having been " an indifferent student " while in college, commenting, " I daydreamed through half my classes at Princeton, and applied to grad school only because I was ambitious, and grad school seemed like the right path for a 21-year-old who wanted to get ahead.

However, this led to the unexpected realization for Stossel that more important events were those that occurred slowly, such as the women's movement, the growth of computer technology, and advancements in contraception, rather than daily events like government pronouncements, elections, fires or crime.

In 1981 Roone Arledge offered Stossel a job at ABC News, as a correspondent for 20 / 20 and consumer reporter for Good Morning America.

With financial support from the libertarian Palmer R. Chitester Fund, Stossel and ABC News launched a series of educational materials for public schools in 1999 entitled " Stossel in the Classroom ".

In 2006, Stossel and ABC released Teaching Tools for Economics, a video series based on the National Council of Economics Education standards.

Since February 2011, Stossel has written a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate.

The three main groups he supports with his donations are the The Doe Fund, the Central Park Conservancy ( on whose board he sits ), and Student Sponsor Partners ( SSP ), which partners low-income high school students with donors who mentor the students and pay tuition for the students to attend private school ( usually Catholic schools ), which Stossel says have higher graduation rates than public schools.

He has also criticized the American legal system, opining that it provides lawyers and vexatious litigators the incentive to file frivolous lawsuits indiscriminately, which Stossel contends often generate more wealth for lawyers than deserving clients, stifle innovation and personal freedoms, and cause harm to private citizens, taxpayers, consumers and businesses.

An article published by the libertarian group Advocates for Self Government notes praise for Stossel.

For example, Stossel was criticized for a segment on his October 11, 1999, show during which he argued that AIDS research has received too much funding, " 25 times more than on Parkinson's, which kills more people.

In a February 2000 Salon. com feature on Stossel entitled " Prime-time propagandist ", David Mastio wrote that Stossel has a conflict of interest in donating profits from his public speaking engagements to, among others, a non-profit called " Stossel in the Classroom " which includes material for use in schools, some of which uses material made by Stossel.

Stossel denied any misrepresentation of Galbraith's views, and stated that it was not his intention to convey that Galbraith agreed with all of the special's ideas, but re-edited that portion of the program for its September 2000 repeat, in which Stossel paraphrased, " Even economists who like Europe's policies, like James Galbraith, now acknowledge America's success.

Later, after a report in The New York Times confirmed the Environmental Working Group's claims, ABC News suspended the producer of the segment for a month and reprimanded Stossel.

On December 28, 1984, during an interview for 20 / 20 on professional wrestling, wrestler David Schultz struck Stossel after Stossel stated that he thought professional wrestling was " fake ".

They communicated this to Stossel, but after the story's producer backed Stossel's recollection that the test results had been as described, the story was rebroadcast months later, uncorrected, and with a postscript in which Stossel reiterated his claim.

Two weeks later reporter John Stossel made a public $ 10, 000 bet with financier T. Boone Pickens about whether or not the price of oil would surpass $ 100 by the first quarter of 2010.

John F. Stossel ( born March 6, 1947 ) is an American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist.

In 1984, while filming a segment on professional wrestling, reporter John Stossel made a mention to wrestler David " Dr. D " Schultz that wrestling was fake.

Stossel intended to go work at Seattle Magazine, but it had gone out of business by the time he graduated.

Stossel, who confesses to having been frightened of being on the air, has expressed embarrassment at watching videos of his early performances.

Stossel explained at the end of the December 30, 2010 episode of Stossel that he gives away his earnings from these engagements to charity ; they contribute 25 % of his income.

Stossel and his former ABC News colleague Chris Cuomo are silent investors in Columbus Tavern, a restaurant on Columbus Avenue at 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Stossel speaking at the Free State Project's New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Stossel's brother, Thomas P. Stossel, is a Harvard Medical School professor and co-director of the Hematology Division at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Scott Stossel, an editor at The Atlantic, wrote:

After a few years of on-air reporting, Stossel was hired by WCBS-TV in New York City, by Ed Joyce, the same news director who hired Arnold Diaz, Linda Ellerbee, Dave Marash, Joel Siegel and Lynn Sherr.

Stossel lives in New York City with his wife, Ellen Abrams.

The Allan P. Kirby Lecture in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship has also hosted speakers including journalist and television host John Stossel, and former New York Governor George Pataki.

Julie Pierce criticized Stossel, saying her husband would have been saved by the Canadian health care system, and she thought Stossel should have interviewed her and her doctor before writing about them.

In September 2009, before the start of its new season, John Stossel announced he would leave the program after 28 years to pursue a new weekly show on the Fox Business Network.

Stossel went on to be an ABC News correspondent, joining the weekly news magazine program 20 / 20, going on to become co-anchor.

In September 2009, it was announced that Stossel was leaving ABC News and joining Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.

In October 2009, Stossel left his long-time home on ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel, both owned and operated by News Corp.

In August 2010, a lower court's dismissal of the minister's defamation suit against ABC, Price v. Stossel, was overturned by the U. S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In a 2007 episode of ABC News's 20 / 20 titled " Sick in America ", host John Stossel cited numerous examples of Canadians who did not get the health care that they needed.

Tenenbaum was featured in an interview by John Stossel for a 20 / 20 Special Edition about public schools in the United States and around the world, called " Stupid in America ," which originally aired on the ABC News network on January 13, 2006.

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* Rosa appeared on " The Power of Belief " with John Stossel, first aired October 6, 1998, ABC.