Biography

ABC News: John Stossel, Co-Anchor '20/20'
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Web Sites

Stossel In the Classroom
A project of the Center for Independent Thought, distributes Stossel's videos to high school classrooms

Articles

John Stossel - Hero of the Day, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
John Stossel Gets a Break, by Tim Cavanaugh, 5 Mar 2004
Piercing through Myths, Lies, and Stupidity, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, Aug 2006
Related Topics: Compulsory Education, Farming, Politics
"John Stossel, anchor of the ABC News program 20/20, is a rarity among the ranks of American media personalities. He's a skeptic when it comes to everything except freedom. ... Over the years, he has made a very good career in TV journalism, poking holes in the self-inflated posturing of union leaders, environmental zealots, businessmen who demand government favors, and, most of all, politicians."

Interviews

Into it: John Stossel, by Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jun 2006
"I pay more so my kid can get a private-school education. But then I discovered that the government schools are spending, on average, $10,000 per student. That's $200,000 plus per classroom. I would think I could hire three teachers to do a better job for that money. But government monopolies squander that money."
Risky Journalism: ABC's John Stossel bucks a fearful establishment, by Jacob Sullum, Reason, Apr 1997
"I believe, just as Jefferson did, that less government is good government, and as George Washington did, that government is not reason or persuasion, government is force. ... government ... has grown over 100 years from 1 or 2 percent of the GDP to about 36 percent of the GDP. ..."

Books Authored

Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media..., 2004

Videos

Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?, ABC News Special, 21 Apr 1994

Greed, 3 Feb 1998
Help Me, I Can't Help Myself, ABC News 20/20, 21 Apr 2003
Hype, 12 Jul 2002

Is America # One?, 19 Sep 1999
Related Topic: United States
John Stossel Goes to Washington, 27 Jan 2001
Related Topic: Washington, DC
Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So, 28 Aug 1997
Lies, Myths and Stupidity, ABC News 20/20, 23 Jan 2004
Tampering With Nature, 29 Jun 2001
Teens: What Makes Them Tick?, 5 Sep 1999
Related Topic: Children

The War on Drugs: A War on Ourselves?, 30 Jul 2002
Related Topic: War on Drugs
You Can't Say That!: What's Happening to Free Speech?, 27 Jul 2000
Related Topic: Freedom of Speech