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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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.

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

After a few years, the news director told Stossel to go on the air and read what he wrote.

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

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.

The program, entitled Stossel, debuted December 10, 2009, on Fox Business Network.

His blog, " Stossel ’ s Take ", is published on both FoxBusiness. com and FoxNews. com.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 ".

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.

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.

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

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

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 ".

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.

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.

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

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.

John Stossel produced an investigative news report into the swinging lifestyle.

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

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