Stossel characterizes his older brother, Tom, as " the superstar of the family ", commenting, " While I partied and played poker, he studied hard, got top grades, and went to Harvard Medical School.

Regarding religion, Stossel identified himself as an agnostic in the December 16, 2010 episode of Stossel, explaining that he had no belief in God, but was open to the possibility.

Since February 2011, Stossel has also become a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist.

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

Stossel has written three books.

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

Stossel has criticized government programs as inefficient, wasteful, and harmful.

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.

Stossel has won 19 Emmy Awards.

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.

University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith has alleged that Stossel in his September 1999 special, Is America # 1 ?, used an out of context clip of Galbraith to convey the notion that Galbraith advocated the adoption by Europe of the free market economics practiced by the United States, when in fact, Galbraith actually advocated that Europe adopt some of the United States ' social benefit transfer mechanisms such as Social Security, which is the economically opposite view.

In a 2006 discussion hosted by the Fraser Institute, Stossel stated that he accepts that global warming has occurred in the past century, that it has been about one degree Celsius, and that man-made emissions " may be part of the cause.

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.

TV journalist John Stossel has ridiculed state laws against fish pedicures, arguing that they represent a case of the government becoming a " Nanny State ", where individuals no longer can make their own decisions about their well-being.

Woodward has also played a wide range of major character roles in films and television including the role of the German Captain Stossel in the feature film The Brylcreem Boys.

The writers whose work has appeared in The Freeman in recent decades include such libertarians as Charles W. Baird, Donald J. Boudreaux, Clarence Carson, Stephen Davies, Richard Epstein, Burton Folsom, Jr., David R. Henderson, Robert Higgs, David Kelley, Tibor Machan, Wendy McElroy, Lawrence W. Reed, George Reisman, Hans Sennholz, Bernard Siegan, John Stossel, George Leef, Thomas Szasz and Walter E. Williams.

" John Stossel has cited Michelle Bernard's 2007 book Women's Progress as evidence that " American women have never enjoyed more options or such a high quality of life.

Stossel grew continuously more frustrated with having to follow the assignment editor's vision of what was news.

" Although he had been accepted to the University of Chicago's School of Hospital Management, Stossel was " sick of school ", and thought taking a job would inspire him to embrace graduate studies with renewed vigor.

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.

Stossel apologized, saying that he had thought the tests had been conducted as reported.

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.

Stossel expressed sympathy, but said she had been misled to believe the treatment was routinely available in Canada.

Stossel was named co-anchor of 20 / 20 in May 2003, while he was writing his first book, Gimme a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media, which was published in 2004.

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.

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.

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 ...

According to Stossel, when he was in favor of government intervention and skeptical of business he was deluged with awards, but in 2006 he stated, " They like me less ... Once I started applying the same skepticism to government, I stopped winning awards.

Stossel began his journalism career as a researcher for KGW-TV and later became a consumer reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, before joining ABC News as a consumer editor and reporter on Good Morning America.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Scott Stossel, an editor at The Atlantic, wrote: