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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.
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A February 2000 story about organic vegetables on 20 / 20 included statements by Stossel that tests had shown that neither organic nor conventional produce samples contained any pesticide residue, and that organic food was more likely to be contaminated by E. coli bacteria.
Stossel and views
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 and stated
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.
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.
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 ".
Stossel stated that he suffered from pain and buzzing in his ears eight weeks after the assault.
In a 20 / 20 segment on his former doctor, Stossel stated his opinion that the TMS treatment " cured " his back pain, although he admitted that he continues to have relapses of pain.
Stossel and was
This received much publicity in Latin America and even in the United States, where it was the subject of a report by John Stossel on 20 / 20.
John F. Stossel was born on March 6, 1947 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the younger of two sons.
" 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.
" 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.
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 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.
Stossel also " hated " Joyce, whom he felt was " cold and critical ", though Stossel credits Joyce with allowing him the freedom to pursue his own story ideas, and with recommending a clinic in Roanoke, Virginia that largely cured Stossel's stuttering problem.
Stossel grew continuously more frustrated with having to follow the assignment editor's vision of what was news.
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 September 2009, it was announced that Stossel was leaving ABC News and joining Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
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.
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.
" On April 23, 2012, Stossel was awarded the Chapman University Presidential Medal, by the current president, James Doti, and chancellor, Danielle Struppa.
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.
Stossel and convey
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.
Stossel and with
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 ...
Stossel also struggled with a stuttering problem he had harbored since childhood.
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.
Although Stossel concedes that some lawsuits are necessary in order to provide justice to people genuinely injured by others with greater economic power, he advocates the adoption in the U. S. of the English rule as one method to reduce the more abusive or frivolous lawsuits.
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 lives in New York City with his wife, Ellen Abrams.
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.
She also participated in a campaign to encourage youth abstinence from sex, in which she recorded two duets with former Menudo member Johnny Lozada, and was featured in Newsweek and People magazines and on the U. S. television newsmagazine show 20 / 20 in a story reported by John Stossel.
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.
* Rosa appeared on " The Power of Belief " with John Stossel, first aired October 6, 1998, ABC.
* Give Me a Break, a regular feature with John Stossel on the American television news magazine 20 / 20
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The Nobel Prize – winning Chicago School monetarist economist Milton Friedman lauded Stossel, stating: " Stossel is that rare creature, a TV commentator who understands economics, in all its subtlety.
Stossel and ideas
One day, Stossel bypassed the assignment editor to give Ed Joyce a list of story ideas the assignment editor had rejected.
During the course of his work on 20 / 20 Stossel discovered Reason magazine, and found that the libertarian ideas of its writers made sense to him.
Stossel and program
Stossel went on to be an ABC News correspondent, joining the weekly news magazine program 20 / 20, going on to become co-anchor.
The program, entitled Stossel, debuted December 10, 2009, on Fox Business Network.
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.
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" 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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