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 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.

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.

John F. Stossel was born on March 6, 1947 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the younger of two sons.

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.

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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 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 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.

However in May 2003, John Stossel, the man behind the controversial, though popular, " Give Me a Break " segments, was named co-anchor of 20 / 20.

* Give Me a Break, a regular feature with John Stossel on the American television news magazine 20 / 20

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.

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.

In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal in September 2007 called " Sick Sob Stories ", Stossel described the case of Tracy and Julie Pierce that was explored in Michael Moore's film, Sicko.

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.

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 Stossel produced an investigative news report into the swinging lifestyle.

Stossel reported in 2005 that more than four million people were swingers, according to estimates by the Kinsey Institute and other researchers.

" 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.

" Stossel interviewed 12 marriage counselors.

Nevertheless, swingers whom Stossel interviewed claimed " their marriages are stronger because they don't have affairs and they don't lie to each other.

* Libertarian commentator John Stossel frequently quotes the story and references the title of the U. S. Handicapper General.

Past contributors include Jonathan Chait, Jonathan Cohn, Joshua Green, Joshua Micah Marshall, Jedediah Purdy, Chris Mooney, Matthew Yglesias, Michael Massing, Joe Conason, Michael Tomasky, Ezra Klein, and Scott Stossel.

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

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.

He hosts a weekly news show on Fox Business, Stossel, which debuted on December 10, 2009.

John Stossel is doctor honoris causa from Universidad Francisco Marroquín.

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

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.

" 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.