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.

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.

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.

" 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 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.

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.

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.

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

* John Stossel, Fox Business Network anchor, former co-anchor of ABC's 20 / 20

* 20 / 20 co-anchor John Stossel was treated by Sarno for his chronic debilitating back pain.

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

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.

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 ".

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 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.

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.

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.

* John Stossel ' 69, ABC News anchor / correspondent

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

* John Stossel ( 2003 – 2009 )

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 also regularly provides signature analysis, appearing on various Fox News shows, including weekly appearances on The O ' Reilly Factor, in addition to writing the Fox News Blog, " John Stossel's Take ".

Independent Institute Research Analyst Anthony Gregory, writing on the libertarian blog, LewRockwell. com, described Stossel as a " heroic rogue ... a media maverick and proponent of freedom in an otherwise statist, conformist mass media.

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 cites union work rules that discouraged the extra work that Stossel felt allowed employees to be creative, which he says represented his " first real introduction to the deals made by special interests ".

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.

" 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 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.

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 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.