:John Stossel

John F. Stossel was born on March 6, 1947,{{cite news|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-stossel/bio/212342|title=John Stossel: Biography|newspaper=TV Guide|access-date=August 12, 2012}} in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the younger of two sons,Stossel, John (2004). Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media. HarperCollins. pp. 2–3 to Jewish parents who left Germany before Hitler rose to power. The family joined a Congregationalist church in the U.S., and Stossel was raised Protestant.Gonczi, Esther (March 4, 2001). [http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2001-03-04/community/0103010687_1_jewish-federation-uja-annual-campaign-boca-raton-resort "King David Society Praises Generosity"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213060619/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2001-03-04/community/0103010687_1_jewish-federation-uja-annual-campaign-boca-raton-resort |date=December 13, 2013 }}. Sun-Sentinel. He grew up on Chicago's affluent North Shore and graduated from New Trier High School.Zwecker, Bill (February 23, 2011). [http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/3960248-421/fox-anchor-identifies-with-the-kings-speech.html "Fox anchor identifies with 'The King’s Speech'"]. Chicago Sun-Times. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318190510/http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/3960248-421/fox-anchor-identifies-with-the-kings-speech.html |date=March 18, 2012 }} Stossel characterizes his older brother, Thomas P. Stossel, 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." Stossel characterizes himself as 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. Stossel recalled in an interview that after graduating college, "like a lot of young people I thought capitalism was ok it brings us some stuff but it's cruel and unfair".{{Citation |title=John Stossel {{!}} The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 27 | date=November 11, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHJjmlPTq0 |access-date=2023-06-18 |language=en}}

In school, Stossel aspired to work at Seattle Magazine, but it went out of business by the time he graduated. His contacts there assisted him in getting a job at KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, where Stossel began as a newsroom gofer, working his way up to researcher and then writer. After a few years, the news director told Stossel to go on the air and read what he wrote. Despite his stage fright, Stossel says his fear spurred him to improve, examining and imitating broadcasts of David Brinkley and Jack Perkins. Stossel had also stuttered since childhood. 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 more limited amount of time spent there on research lowered the quality of its journalism compared to Portland. 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". Stossel also "hated" Joyce, who he felt was "cold and critical", though Stossel credits Joyce with allowing him the freedom to pursue his own story ideas, and with recommending the Hollins Communications Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia, that helped Stossel manage his stutter.Stossel. 2004. pp. 3–8

Stossel grew continuously more frustrated with having to follow the assignment editor's vision of what was news. Perhaps because of his stuttering, he had always avoided covering what others covered, feeling he could not succeed if he were forced to compete with other reporters by shouting out questions at news conferences. 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. One day, Stossel bypassed the assignment editor to give Ed Joyce a list of story ideas the assignment editor had rejected. Joyce agreed that Stossel's ideas were better, and approved them. Stossel has served as a spokesman for the Stuttering Foundation of America.[http://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/stuttering-didn’t-silence-his-story-2020’s-john-stossel-inspires-others "Stuttering Didn’t Silence His Story: 20/20’s John Stossel Inspires Others"]. The Stuttering Foundation. May 1, 2006

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. 2004. pp. 10–11 His "Give Me a Break" segments for the former featured a contrarian look at subjects from government regulations and pop culture to censorship and unfounded fear. The series was spun off into a series of one-hour specials with budgets of half a million dollars{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXGergmtf4 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211116/_QXGergmtf4| archive-date=2021-11-16 | url-status=live|title=John Stossel: The Reason.tv interview (Part 1 of 2)|publisher=YouTube|date=February 3, 2009 |access-date=April 28, 2012}}{{cbignore}} that began in 1994. During the course of his work on 20/20, Stossel wrote, he discovered Reason magazine, whose libertarian ideas appealed to him.Stossel, 2004. p. 60 Stossel later said in an interview that the regulations he urged governments to pass did not work. After coming out as a libertarian, Stossel said, he angered members of the political left, his news colleagues and others. Stossel was named co-anchor of 20/20 in May 2003, while he was writing his first book, Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media, which was published in 2004.Stossel, 2004. p. 273 In it, he details his start in journalism and consumer reporting, and how he evolved to harbor libertarian beliefs.Stossel, 2004. p. 181

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In September 2009, it was announced that Stossel was leaving Disney's ABC News and joining News Corp.'s Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. In addition to appearing on The O'Reilly Factor every Tuesday night, he also hosted a one-hour weekly program for Fox Business Network and a series of one-hour specials for Fox News Channel, as well as making regular guest appearances on Fox News programs.

The program, Stossel, debuted December 10, 2009, on Fox Business Network.{{cite web |url=http://m.foxbusiness.com/quickPage.html?page=26798 |title=John Stossel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212064123/http://m.foxbusiness.com/quickPage.html?page=26798 |archive-date=December 12, 2013 |publisher=Fox Business Network |access-date=May 31, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }} The program examined issues related to individual freedom, free market capitalism and small government, such as civil liberties, the business of health care, and free trade. The final episode premiered on December 16, 2016. At the end of that episode, a retrospective that spotlighted moments from seven years of the program, Stossel explained that due to his age, he wanted to help develop a younger generation of journalists with his views, and would continue to appear as a guest on Fox programs, and also help produce content for Reason TV.Welch, Matt (December 16, 2016). [http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/16/thank-you-john-stossel-for-teaching-libe "Thank You, John Stossel, for Teaching Libertarians How to Do Cable News"]. Reason.org. His blog, "Stossel's Take", was published on both FoxBusiness.com and FoxNews.com.[http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/ "John Stossel's Take"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502181921/http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/ |date=May 2, 2011 }}. Fox Business. Retrieved August 12, 2012.Ariens, Chris (September 10, 2009) [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/john_stossel_leaving_abc_for_fox_130603.asp "John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox"]. Mediabistro.com. Retrieved September 10, 2009. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908024554/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/john_stossel_leaving_abc_for_fox_130603.asp |date=September 8, 2010 }}

In 2019, Stossel launched Stossel TV, an online channel which distributes weekly videos via social media platforms.

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Stossel has written three books. Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media is a 2005 autobiography from Harper Perennial documenting his career and philosophical transition from liberalism to libertarianism. It describes his opposition to government regulation, his belief in free market and private enterprise, support for tort reform, and advocacy for shifting social services from the government to private charities. It was a New York Times bestseller for 11 weeks.{{cite web | url=http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/JohnStossel/ | title=Columns by John Stossel | publisher=Townhall.com | access-date=September 24, 2007 | archive-date=September 15, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915035759/http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/JohnStossel/ | url-status=dead }} Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel – Why Everything You Know Is Wrong, which was published in 2007 by Hyperion, questions the validity of various conventional wisdoms, and argues that the belief he is conservative is untrue. On April 10, 2012, Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, published Stossel's third book No, They Can't: Why Government Fails – But Individuals Succeed. It argues that government policies meant to solve problems instead produce new ones, and that free individuals and the private sector perform tasks more efficiently than the government does.{{cite web | url=http://www.heritage.org/events/2012/04/no-they-cant | title=No They Can't: Why Government Fails – But Individuals Succeed | publisher=The Heritage Foundation | date=April 11, 2012 | access-date=April 17, 2012 | author=Gonzalez, Mike | url-status=unfit | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412092355/http://www.heritage.org/events/2012/04/no-they-cant | archive-date=April 12, 2012 | df=mdy-all }}

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".{{cite web|url=http://stosselintheclassroom.org/ |title=Stossel in the Classroom |access-date=April 28, 2012}}{{cite news | url=http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/brill_stossel.htm | title=Laissez-Faire TV | publisher=Media Transparency | last=Rose | first=Ted | access-date=September 24, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223859/http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/brill_stossel.htm | archive-date=September 26, 2007 | df=mdy-all }} It was taken over in 2006 by the Center for Independent Thought and releases a new DVD of teaching materials annually. In 2006, Stossel and ABC released Teaching Tools for Economics, a video series based on the National Council of Economics Education standards.{{cite news | url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1936941 | title=Teaching Tools for Economics from John Stossel | publisher=ABC News| date=April 29, 2007 | access-date=September 24, 2007}}

Since February 2011, Stossel has written a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate.[http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel-about.html "About John Stossel"]. Creators Syndicate. Retrieved August 2, 2012.[http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/archive.html?DATE_START=2011-02-01 "John Stossel Archive"]. Creators Syndicate. Retrieved August 2, 2012. His articles appear in such online publications as Newsmax, Reason, and Townhall.{{cite web|last=Stossel|first=John|title=John Stossel : Contributors|url=http://reason.com/people/john-stossel/all|publisher=Reason|access-date=4 December 2013}}

Stossel purports to debunk myths in his journalism. His Myths and Lies series of 20/20 specials challenges a range of liberal beliefs.{{cite web|last1=Hagelin|first1=Rebecca|title=John Stossel: Myth Buster Extraordinaire|url=https://www.heritage.org/commentary/john-stossel-myth-buster-extraordinaire|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423232829/https://www.heritage.org/commentary/john-stossel-myth-buster-extraordinaire|url-status=unfit|archive-date=April 23, 2018|publisher=Heritage Foundation|access-date=23 April 2018}} He also hosted The Power of Belief (October 6, 1998), an ABC News Special that focused on assertions of the paranormal and people's desire to believe. Another report put forward the argument that opposition to DDT is misplaced and that the ban on DDT has resulted in the deaths of millions of children,{{cite web | url=http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.442/healthissue_detail.asp | title=The DDT Ban Turns 30 – Millions Dead of Malaria Because of Ban, More Deaths Likely | publisher=American Council on Science and Health | date=June 1, 2002 | access-date=November 17, 2007 | last=Seavey | first=Todd | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009192241/http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.442/healthissue_detail.asp | archive-date=October 9, 2007 | df=mdy-all }} mostly in poor nations.{{cite news| url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/hooray_for_ddts_lifesaving_com.html | title=Hooray for DDT's Life-Saving Comeback | publisher=Real Clear Politics | date=October 4, 2006 | last=Stossel | first=John | access-date=September 24, 2007}}

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As a libertarian{{Cite news|last1=Rutenberg|first1=Jim|last2=Barringer|first2=Felicity|date=2000-08-14|title=MEDIA; Apology Highlights ABC Reporter's Contrarian Image|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/14/business/media-apology-highlights-abc-reporter-s-contrarian-image.html|access-date=2021-05-06|issn=0362-4331}} who has said he usually votes for the Libertarian Party, Stossel says that he believes in both personal freedom"[http://www.newmedia.ufm.edu/stossel Conference about The Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531083834/http://www.newmedia.ufm.edu/stossel |date=May 31, 2020 }}" at Francisco Marroquin University. Guatemala, January 2008 and the free market. He frequently uses television airtime to advance these views and challenge viewers' distrust of free-market capitalism and economic competition. He received an Honoris Causa Doctorate from Francisco Marroquin University, a libertarian university in Guatemala, in 2008.

Stossel argues that individual self-interest, or "greed", creates an incentive to work harder and to innovate.{{cite news| url=http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2006/04/26/greed_is_good |title=Greed is good | last=Stossel | first=John | publisher=Townhall.com | date=April 26, 2006 | access-date=September 24, 2007}} He argues that this innovation makes the poor richer and the only way people "can get rich is to offer us something that we believe is better than we had before."{{cite web |last=Stossel |first=John |title=The Poor Get Richer |url=https://stoppingsocialism.com/2021/06/john-stossel-the-poor-get-richer/ |access-date=2 May 2022 |website=Stoppingsocialism.com|date=June 16, 2021 }} He promoted school choice as a way to improve American public schools akin to the Belgian voucher system.{{cite news| url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338 |title=Opinion: John Stossel's 'Stupid in America' | last=Stossel | first=John | publisher=ABC News | date=January 13, 2016 | access-date=May 9, 2021}}{{cite web| url=https://www.oecd.org/education/School-choice-and-school-vouchers-an-OECD-perspective.pdf |title=School choice and school vouchers: An OECD perspective | publisher=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | date=2017 | access-date=May 9, 2021}}

Stossel has criticized government programs for being inefficient, wasteful, and harmful.{{cite news|url=http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2006/08/16/does_government_stupidity_know_any_bounds|title=Does Government Stupidity Know Any Bounds|publisher=Townhall.com|last=Stossel|first=John|date=August 16, 2006|access-date=September 24, 2007|archive-date=March 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318181147/http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/JohnStossel/2006/08/16/does_government_stupidity_know_any_bounds|url-status=dead}} He has also criticized the American legal system, opining that it provides lawyers and vexatious litigators the incentive to file frivolous lawsuits indiscriminately.Stossel, 2004. "The Trouble with Lawyers". pp. 177–179 Although Stossel concedes that some lawsuits are necessary in order to provide justice to people genuinely injured by others with greater economic power,Martel, Frances.[http://www.mediaite.com/tv/john-stossel-fights-frivolous-lawsuits-on-a-go-cart/ "John Stossel Fights Frivolous Lawsuits On A Go-Cart"]. July 7, 2010 he advocates the adoption in the U.S. of the English rule as one method to reduce the more abusive or frivolous lawsuits.Stossel; 2004; p. 283

Stossel opposes the minimum wage,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_audit/stossels_poor_logic_on_minimum.php|title=John Stossel's poor logic on minimum wages and jobs|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-05-14}} corporate welfare and welfare more broadly, bailouts,John Stossel and Andrew Kirell. [https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7067596&page=1 Is the Government Bailout Just Dollars and Nonsense?], ABC News, March 13, 2009 seat belt laws, occupational licensing and the war in Iraq. He also opposes legal prohibitions against pornography, marijuana, recreational drugs, gambling, ticket scalping, prostitution, polygamy,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxyOn6RXDg | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211116/DgxyOn6RXDg| archive-date=2021-11-16 | url-status=live|title=John Stossel & Don Imus Discuss Gay Marriage & The Coming Bankruptcy of Medicare & Social Security |publisher=YouTube|date=April 5, 2013 |access-date=April 11, 2014}}{{cbignore}} and assisted suicide,[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE1DC1738F935A15756C0A96E958260 Television Review; A Grab Bag of 'Victimless Crimes'], The New York Times, May 26, 1998 and believes most abortions should be legal.{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/GiveMeABreak/John_Stossel_QA_040126.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040816023307/https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/GiveMeABreak/John_Stossel_QA_040126.html|archive-date=August 16, 2004 |title=John Stossel Q & A – Your Questions Answered|publisher=ABCNews.com|last=Stossel|first=John|access-date=March 18, 2010}} He has said he supports the rule of law, gun rights,{{Citation |title=The Right To BEAR Arms | date=June 29, 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrMgqr6SmYo |access-date=2023-03-12 |language=en}} pollution control, and lower and simpler taxes.Stossel, John (April 2010). [http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/lower-and-simplify-taxes.html "Lower and Simplify Taxes!"]. JFS Productions, Inc. Creators.com. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213004835/http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/lower-and-simplify-taxes.html |date=December 13, 2013 }} He has endorsed or explored various ideas in his specials and on his TV series for changing the tax system, including switching to a flat tax,Stossel, John (1999). Is America #1?, ABC News. and replacing the income tax with the FairTax.{{cite web | url=http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2006/may/25/2006-05-25/ | title=Today's Nuze: May 25, 2006 | publisher=Cox Media Group | date=May 25, 2006 | access-date=April 9, 2012 | author=Boortz, Neal | author-link=Neal Boortz | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504021248/http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2006/may/25/2006-05-25/ | archive-date=May 4, 2012 | df=mdy-all }}

Stossel argues that a country needs to have police and a national defense as laid out by the United States Constitution. Stossel acknowledges that Scandinavian countries have large welfare states, but says that they can only afford them "because they have a homogeneous culture and they have a fairly free private market to pay for it" while also noting that they have no government-mandated minimum wage.{{Third-party inline|date=June 2023}}

When the Department of Labor reissued federal guidelines in April 2010 governing the employment of unpaid interns under the Fair Labor Standards Act based on a 1947 Supreme Court decision,[http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf Fact Sheet #71: Internship Programs Under The Fair Labor Standards Act] United States Department of Labor; April 2010 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." Asked why he did not pay them if they were so valuable, he said he could not afford to.Stout, Hilary. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/fashion/04Internship.html The Coveted but Elusive Summer Internship], The New York Times, July 2, 2010

Stossel is a faculty member of the Charles Koch Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/charles-koch-institute-fellowship-journalism.php|title=Charles Koch Institute fellowship funds journalists|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-05-14}}

Stossel has advocated in favor of abolishing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Jim |date=2010-03-01 |title=John Stossel's Plan to Abolish the FDA Should Be Laughed Out of Town |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-stossels-plan-to-abolish-the-fda-should-be-laughed-out-of-town/ |access-date=2021-09-26 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}

On April 1, 2016, Stossel moderated the first-ever nationally televised Libertarian presidential debate.{{cite web |author=Nicholas Sarwark |date=March 3, 2016 |title=Libertarian presidential debate to air on Stossel Show in April |work=Libertarian Party |url=https://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/libertarian-presidential-debate-to-air-on-stossel-show-in-april |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511063734/https://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/libertarian-presidential-debate-to-air-on-stossel-show-in-april |archive-date=May 11, 2016 }} The second part of the debate aired on April 8.{{cite web |date=March 31, 2016 |title=FBN's John Stossel Hosts Libertarian Presidential Forum Featuring Johnson, McAfee & Petersen |url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/03/31/fbn-s-john-stossel-hosts-libertarian-presidential-forum-featuring-johnson-mcafee-petersen.html |publisher=Fox Business}} On May 21, 2020, he moderated the Libertarian Party National Convention Presidential Debate between Jacob Hornberger, Vermin Supreme, Jo Jorgensen, Jim Gray, and John Monds.{{cite web |title=LP official presidential debates tonight; lineups announced |url=https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2020/05/lp-official-presidential-debates-tonight-lineups-announced/ |website=Independent Political Report |date=May 21, 2020 |publisher=SpinJ Corporation |access-date=2020-07-03}}

In 2001, the progressive media watchdog organization FAIR criticized Stossel's reportage of global warming in his documentary, Tampering with Nature, accusing it of using "highly selective...information" that placed undue emphasis on three dissenters from among the 2,000 members of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had recently released a report stating that global temperatures were rising almost twice as fast as previously thought.{{cite web |date=July 17, 2001 |title=FAIR Action Alert: Stossel Tampers with the Facts |url=https://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/stossel-tampers-with-the-facts/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609022304/http://www.fair.org/activism/stossel-tampering.html |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |access-date=August 3, 2020 |publisher=FAIR}}

In December 2014, Stossel stated that "There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people." The fact-checker website Politifact rated this statement "False", citing considerable levels of scientific research showing that secondhand smoke has caused deaths.{{Cite web|author=Sanders, Katie|url=https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/dec/11/john-stossel/fox-business-pundit-no-good-data-deaths-secondhand/|title=Fox Business pundit: 'No good data' for deaths from secondhand smoke|publisher=Politifact|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2020|archive-date=May 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514173605/https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/dec/11/john-stossel/fox-business-pundit-no-good-data-deaths-secondhand/}}

As of 2001, Stossel had won 19 Emmy Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/10/fox_news_john_stossel_to_speak.html|title=Fox News' John Stossel to speak at STCC|last=Kelly|first=Ray|date=2018-10-15|website=masslive.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-14}}{{Cite web|url=https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-real-cost-of-regulation/|title=The Real Cost of Regulation|last=Stossel|first=John|date=2001-05-01|website=Imprimis|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-14}} He was honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club, has received a George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and a Peabody Award.{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126119&page=1|title=John Stossel|website=ABC News}} On April 23, 2012, Stossel was awarded the Chapman University Presidential Medal, by the current president, James Doti, and chancellor, Danielle Struppa. The award has been presented to only a handful of people over the past 150 years.{{cite news|title=Stossel plugs Libertarian ideas, book at event|last=Thomas|first=Michelle|publisher=The Panther|date=April 30, 2012}}{{unreliable source?|date=April 2022}} Stossel received an honorary doctorate from Universidad Francisco Marroquín.{{cite web |url=http://www.newmedia.ufm.edu/gsm/index.php?title=Doctorado_Honor%C3%ADfico_a_John_Stossel |title=Doctorado Honorífico a John Stossel |language=es |publisher=New Media UFM |access-date=May 29, 2011 |archive-date=May 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504044543/http://newmedia.ufm.edu/gsm/index.php?title=Doctorado_Honor%C3%ADfico_a_John_Stossel |url-status=dead }}

In promotional copy for one of Stossel's books, the Nobel Prize–winning Chicago School monetarist economist Milton Friedman wrote: "Stossel is that rare creature, a TV commentator who understands economics, in all its subtlety."{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.org/events/detail.asp?eventID=92|title=Confessions of a Media Maverick: Exposing Hucksters, Cheats and Scam Artists|publisher=The Independent Institute Conference Center|date=January 30, 2004|access-date=September 24, 2007}} Steve Forbes, the editor of Forbes magazine, described Stossel as "one of America's ablest and most courageous journalists." The author P. J. O'Rourke said, "He seeks the truths that destroy truisms, wields reason against all that's unreasonable, and uses and upholds the ideals that puncture sanctimonious idealism".

An article published by the libertarian group Advocates for Self Government notes praise for Stossel.{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/john-stossel.html|title=John Stossel – Libertarian|publisher=Advocates for Self-Government|access-date=July 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702172434/http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/john-stossel.html|archive-date=July 2, 2007}} 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."{{cite news|url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory55.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313201234/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory55.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 13, 2014|title=Real TV News|publisher=LewRockwell.com|last=Gregory|first=Anthony|date=January 11, 2005|access-date=September 24, 2007}} Libertarian investment analyst Mark Skousen said Stossel is "a true libertarian hero".{{cite news|url=http://www.markskousen.com/article.php?id=1141|title=A Year at FEE|publisher=Forecasts & Strategies|last=Skousen|first=Mark|date=February 1, 2003|access-date=September 24, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928065042/http://www.markskousen.com/article.php?id=1141|archive-date=September 28, 2007|df=mdy-all}}

Progressive organizations such as Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) and Media Matters for America (MMfA) have criticized Stossel's work,{{cite web|url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19&media_outlet_id=19 |title=John Stossel |publisher=Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting |access-date=September 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010060957/http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=19 |archive-date=October 10, 2007 }}{{cite web | url=http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=john+stossel | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104826/http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=john+stossel | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 29, 2007 | title=John Stossel | publisher=Media Matters for America | access-date=September 24, 2007}} for what they described as a lack of balance of coverage and distortion of facts on his part. 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." FAIR pointed out that AIDS had in fact killed more people in the United States in 1999.Hart, Peter (March 1, 2003). [http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/give-us-a-break/ "Give Us a Break: The World According to John Stossel"]. Extra!, FAIR.

In a February 2000 Salon feature on Stossel titled "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.{{cite news | url=http://www.salon.com/2000/02/25/stossel/ | title=Prime-time propagandist | date=February 25, 2000 | last=Mastio | first=David | work=Salon | access-date=October 6, 2007 }}; and, {{cite news | url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020107/dowie/3 | title=A Teflon Correspondent | last=Dowie | first=Mark | date=December 20, 2001 | access-date=October 6, 2007 | publisher=The Nation | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012142733/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020107/dowie/3 | archive-date=October 12, 2007 | url-status=dead }}

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 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. However, he 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."{{cite web | url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1134 | title=The Stossel Treatment | publisher=Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting | first=Rachel | last=Coen | date=March 2003 | access-date=November 14, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114002733/http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1134 | archive-date=November 14, 2007 | df=mdy-all }}Rose, Ted (March 2000) [http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/brill_stossel.htm "Laissez-Faire TV: ABC's John Stossel is a man on a mission to teach Americans about the evils of government regulation and the rewards of free enterprise."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223859/http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/brill_stossel.htm |date=September 26, 2007 }} Brill's Content; and, {{cite web|url=http://www.fair.org/activism/abc-response.html|title=A Response by Stossel and Some of His Staff To the Group "FAIR"|access-date=December 10, 2007|author=Stossel & staff|publisher=FAIR|quote=We stand by our report|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212123640/http://www.fair.org/activism/abc-response.html|archive-date=December 12, 2007|df=mdy-all}}

On December 28, 1984, during an interview for 20/20 on professional wrestling, wrestler David Schultz struck Stossel twice after Stossel said professional wrestling was "fake", during a time when the professional wrestling industry heavily protected kayfabe. Stossel said he suffered from pain and buzzing in his ears eight weeks after the assault.{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9803E4D71239F930A15751C0A963948260&n=Top%2fNews%2fHealth%2fDiseases%2c%20Conditions%2c%20and%20Health%20Topics%2fEars%20and%20Hearing | title=TV Notes; ABC Reporter May Sue Wrestler Who Hit Him | last=Kaplan | first=Peter W. |work=New York Times | date=February 23, 1985 | access-date=September 28, 2007}} Stossel sued and obtained a settlement of $425,000 from the World Wrestling Federation (WWF); the WWF would eventually admit to the industry having predetermined results in 1989.{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119010/3/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023145255/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119010/3/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 October 2009 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |title=Wrestling with Success |date=25 March 1991 }} In his book, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity, Stossel noted his regret, believing lawsuits harm innocent people.[https://books.google.com/books?id=gMVg5JWqh3YC&dq=stossel+shults&pg=PA118 Wrestling Babylon] by Irvin Muchnick ECW Press 2007 p. 118; and, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QYigzbozB9IC&pg=PA211 Give Me a Break] by John Stossel, p. 211 Schultz maintains that he attacked Stossel on orders from Vince McMahon, the head of the then-WWF.{{cite news | url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/10/08/1978747.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718214851/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/10/08/1978747.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=July 18, 2012 | title=Dr. D dominates PWHF dinner | last=Johnson | first=Steven | publisher=Canoe | date=October 8, 2006 | access-date=September 26, 2007 }} This was later re-visited on the second season episode of Dark Side of the Ring, aired on April 28, 2020.

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. The Environmental Working Group objected to his report, mainly questioning his statements about bacteria, but also managed to determine that the produce had never been tested for pesticides. They communicated this to Stossel, but after the story's producer backed Stossel's statement that the test results had been as described, the story was rebroadcast months later, unchanged, and with a postscript in which Stossel reiterated his claim. 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. Stossel apologized, saying that he had thought the tests had been conducted as reported. However, he asserted that the gist of his report had been accurate.{{cite news | last=Rutenberg | first=Jim | title=Report on Organic Foods Is Challenged |work=The New York Times | date=July 31, 2000 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/073100abc-organic.html | access-date=September 1, 2007}}{{cite news | url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124196&page=1 | title=20/20: Stossel Apology for Organic Food Report | date=August 11, 2000 | last=Stossel | first=John | publisher=ABC News | access-date=September 26, 2007}}{{cite news | last=Rutenberg | first=Jim |author2=Barringer, Felicity | title= Apology Highlights ABC Reporter's Contrarian Image |work=The New York Times | date=August 14, 2000 | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3DA133FF937A2575BC0A9669C8B63&sec=health&pagewanted=print | access-date=September 5, 2007}}{{cite news | url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/2000/08/wendy-mcelroy/blaspheming-organic-food-the-persecution-of-john-stossel/ | title=Blaspheming Organic Food: The Persecution of John Stossel | last=McElroy | first=Wendy | date=August 15, 2000 | publisher=LewRockwell.com | access-date=September 26, 2007}}

In a March 2007 segment about finances and lifestyles of televangelists, 20/20 aired a segment by Stossel that included a clip of television minister Frederick K. C. Price, which had originally been broadcast by the Lifetime Network in 1997. Price alleged that the clip portrayed him describing his wealth in extravagant terms, when he was actually telling a parable about a rich man. ABC News twice aired a retraction and apologized for the error.{{cite news|url=http://www.wavenewspapers.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=71&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=6067&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1019&hn=wavenewspapers&he=.com|title=Price Strikes Back at ABC|last=Johnson|first=Gene C. Jr.|publisher=Los Angeles Wave|date=August 2, 2007|access-date=September 26, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026100154/http://www.wavenewspapers.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=71&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=6067&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1019&hn=wavenewspapers&he=.com|archive-date=October 26, 2007}}; and, {{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1309570171.html?dids=1309570171:1309570171&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+25%2C+2007&author=Alana+Semuels&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=C.1&desc=TELEVISION%3B+Preacher+sues+%6020%2F20%2C%27+alleging+defamation|title=Preacher sues '20/20,' alleging defamation|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 25, 2007|last=Semuels|first=Alana|access-date=September 26, 2007|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111012740/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1309570171.html?dids=1309570171:1309570171&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+25%2C+2007&author=Alana+Semuels&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=C.1&desc=TELEVISION%3B+Preacher+sues+%6020%2F20%2C%27+alleging+defamation|url-status=dead}} The suit concluded with an out of court settlement including a public apology by ABC.{{cite news|magazine=Variety|first=Sam|last=Thielman|title=Price and ABC settle after four years|date=April 21, 2011|url=https://variety.com/2011/biz/news/price-and-abc-settle-after-four-years-1118035786/}}

In September 2021, Stossel sued Facebook, alleging defamation for labels applied by fact checkers to two of his videos, but his lawsuit was dismissed in October 2022.{{Cite web |last=Cho |first=Winston |date=2022-10-12 |title=Judge Dismisses John Stossel's Defamation Suit Against Facebook Over Fact-Checking |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/facebook-topples-john-stossels-defamation-suit-1235240341/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-10-14 |title=Facebook wins dismissal of John Stossel's lawsuit over his California wildfire video |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/14/facebook-wins-dismissal-of-john-stossels-lawsuit-over-his-california-wildfire-video |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US}} The fact-checking organizations Science Feedback and Climate Feedback were also named as defendants in Stossel's lawsuit. Stossel's video titled "Government Fueled Fires" had been labeled on Facebook as "missing context" and "misleading", and another video titled "Are We Doomed?" had been labeled as "partly false" and "factual inaccuracies". Stossel's lawsuit said that the labels harmed his viewership, advertisement revenue, and reputation, and that Facebook and its fact-checking partners "falsely attributed to Stossel a claim he never made". In the first video, Stossel featured a guest who opined that climate change was not the primary cause of the 2020 California fires.{{Cite web |title=Stossel v. Facebook Inc. and Climate Feedback (United States District Court Northern District of California 2022) |url=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21068069-stossel |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=www.documentcloud.org}} In the second video, Stossel questioned statements made by those he refers to as "environmental alarmists", including "claims that hurricanes are getting stronger, that sea level rise poses a catastrophic threat, and that humans will be unable to cope with the fallout."{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2021-09-23 |title=John Stossel Sues Facebook Alleging Defamation Over Fact-Check Label, Seeks at Least $2 Million |url=https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/john-stossel-sues-facebook-defamation-fact-check-1235072338/ |access-date=2021-11-03 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Eriq |date=2021-09-23 |title=John Stossel Sues Facebook for Allegedly Defaming Him With Fact-Check |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/john-stossel-sues-facebook-1235019248/ |access-date=2021-10-05 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} A Facebook spokesperson called Stossel's lawsuit "without merit", and Facebook attorneys said in 2021 that "The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion."{{Cite web |last=Bond |first=Paul |date=2021-12-17 |title=Confusing Social Media Messages on Kyle Rittenhouse Leave Supporters Scratching Their Heads |url=https://www.newsweek.com/confusing-social-media-messages-kyle-rittenhouse-leave-supporters-scratching-their-heads-1660791 |access-date=2022-02-25 |website=Newsweek}} In October 2022, a federal court dismissed Stossel's lawsuit, saying that Facebook did not defame him because the Facebook fact check program "reflects a subjective judgment about the accuracy and reliability of assertions". The court also ruled that Stossel's lawsuit could be dismissed under California's anti-SLAPP statute.Stossel v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 5:21-cv-07385-VKD (N.D. Cal. Oct. 11, 2022), https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3731&context=historical

Stossel lives in New York City with his wife, Ellen AbramsWiggins, James, V.I.P Address Book (2008), p. 653 and children, Lauren and Max.{{cite web| url=http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/25395/John_Stossel/index.aspx| publisher=HarperCollins| title=John Stossel Biography| access-date=September 24, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630050207/http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/25395/John_Stossel/index.aspx| archive-date=June 30, 2008| url-status=dead| df=mdy-all}} They also own a home in Massachusetts.{{cite episode|series=Stossel|title=A Practical Earth Day|season=5|number=12|airdate=April 17, 2014|network=Fox Business Network}}

Stossel came to embrace his family's Ashkenazi Jewish heritage after marrying his wife, who is also Jewish. They also raised their children Jewish. Stossel identified himself as an agnostic in "Skeptic or Believer", the December 16, 2010, episode of Stossel, explaining that he had no belief in God but was open to the possibility.{{Cite episode |title=Skeptic or Believer |series=Stossel |series-link=Stossel (TV series) |network=Fox Business Network |airdate=December 16, 2010 |minutes=14 }}

Stossel's brother, Thomas P. Stossel, was a Harvard Medical School professorStossel, 2004, p. 214. and co-director of the Hematology Division at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.Stossel, John (2006). Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity. Hyperion Books p. 56 He has served on the advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Pfizer.{{cite news|author=Wilson, Duff|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/business/03medschool.html|title=Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 2, 2009}}; and, {{cite web|url=http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2010/april/26/physician-payment-disclosures.aspx|title=Kaiser Health News|date=April 26, 2010}} Stossel's nephew is journalist and magazine editor Scott Stossel.{{cite web|author=Stossel, John|date=September 2, 2009|title=Thank Goodness for John Goodman|publisher=Fox Business Network|url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2009/09/02/thank-goodness-for-john-goodman|access-date=August 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212064713/http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2009/09/02/thank-goodness-for-john-goodman|archive-date=December 12, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

On April 20, 2016, Stossel announced he had lung cancer,{{Cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/john-stossel-credits-his-overanxious-wife-for-early-discovery-of-cancer/293490|title=John Stossel Credits His 'Overanxious Wife' for Early Discovery of Cancer|last=Joyella|first=Mark|date=May 13, 2016|website=TVNewser|access-date=2016-07-23}} and that as a result of its early detection, he would have a fifth of one of his lungs surgically removed.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/stossel-i-have-lung-cancer-my-medical-care-is-excellent-but-the-customer-service-stinks/|title=Stossel: I have lung cancer. My medical care is excellent but the customer service stinks|last=Stossel|first=John|date=April 20, 2016|publisher=Fox News}}

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• Sullum, Jacob. [http://www.reason.com/news/show/30228.html "Risky Journalism: ABC's John Stossel bucks a fearful establishment"] Reason, April 1997.

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