John Frank Stossel was born on March 6,1947 and is an American libertarian television presenter, author, consumer journalist, and pundit.
42 Facts About John Stossel
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John Stossel is known for his career as a host on ABC News, Fox Business Network, and Reason TV.
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John Stossel began his journalism career as a researcher for KGW-TV, was a consumer reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, and then joined ABC News as a consumer editor and reporter on Good Morning America.
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In October 2009, John Stossel left ABC News to join the Fox Business Network.
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John Stossel hosted a weekly news show on Fox Business, Stossel, from December 2009 to December 2016.
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John Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and five awards from the National Press Club.
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John F Stossel was born on March 6,1947, in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the younger of two sons, to Jewish parents who left Germany before Hitler rose to power.
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The family joined a Congregationalist church in the US, and John Stossel was raised Protestant.
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John Stossel grew up on Chicago's affluent North Shore and graduated from New Trier High School.
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In school, John Stossel aspired to work at Seattle Magazine, but it went out of business by the time he graduated.
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John 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.
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John Stossel cites union work rules that discouraged the extra work that John Stossel felt allowed employees to be creative, which he says represented his "first real introduction to the deals made by special interests".
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John Stossel grew continuously more frustrated with having to follow the assignment editor's vision of what was news.
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One day, John Stossel bypassed the assignment editor to give Ed Joyce a list of story ideas the assignment editor had rejected.
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Joyce agreed that John Stossel's ideas were better, and approved them.
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John Stossel has served as a spokesman for the Stuttering Foundation of America.
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John Stossel's "Give Me a Break" segments for the former featured a skeptical look at subjects from government regulations and pop culture to censorship and unfounded fear.
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In September 2009, it was announced that John Stossel was leaving Disney's ABC News and joining News Corp.
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The program, John Stossel, debuted December 10,2009, on Fox Business Network.
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In 2019, John Stossel launched John Stossel TV, an online channel which distributes weekly videos via social media platforms.
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Since February 2011, John Stossel has written a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate.
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John Stossel's articles appear in such online publications as Newsmax, Reason, and Townhall.
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John Stossel hosted The Power of Belief, an ABC News Special that focused on assertions of the paranormal and people's desire to believe.
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John Stossel frequently uses television airtime to advance these views and challenge viewers' distrust of free-market capitalism and economic competition.
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John Stossel received an Honoris Causa Doctorate from Francisco Marroquin University, a libertarian university in Guatemala, in 2008.
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John Stossel argues that individual self-interest, or "greed", creates an incentive to work harder and to innovate.
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John Stossel has criticized government programs for being inefficient, wasteful, and harmful.
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John Stossel has criticized the American legal system, opining that it provides lawyers and vexatious litigators the incentive to file frivolous lawsuits indiscriminately.
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John Stossel opposes the minimum wage, corporate welfare, bailouts and the war in Iraq.
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John Stossel opposes legal prohibitions against pornography, marijuana, recreational drugs, gambling, ticket scalping, prostitution, polygamy, and assisted suicide, and believes most abortions should be legal.
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John Stossel is a faculty member of the Charles Koch Institute.
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John Stossel has advocated in favor of abolishing the Food and Drug Administration.
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John Stossel 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.
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John 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.
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John Stossel said he suffered from pain and buzzing in his ears eight weeks after the assault.
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John Stossel sued and obtained a settlement of $280,000 from the World Wrestling Federation.
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John Stossel apologized, saying that he had thought the tests had been conducted as reported.
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In September 2021, John Stossel sued Facebook, alleging defamation for labels applied by fact checkers to two of his videos, but his lawsuit was dismissed in October 2022.
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John 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 John Stossel a claim he never made".
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John Stossel came to embrace his family's Ashkenazi Jewish heritage after marrying his wife, who is Jewish.
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John Stossel identified himself as an agnostic in "Skeptic or Believer", the December 16,2010 episode of John Stossel, explaining that he had no belief in God but was open to the possibility.
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John Stossel has served on the advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Pfizer.