John Stossel

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John Frank Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is an American consumer television personality, author, and libertarian pundit, known for his career on both ABC News and Fox Business Channel. Stossel's style combines reporting and commentary.

It reflects a libertarian political philosophy and views on economics which are largely supportive of the free market.

He 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.

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

In October 2009, Stossel left ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel.

He hosted a weekly news show on Fox Business, Stossel from December 2009 to December 2016. Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and five awards from the National Press Club.

Stossel has written three books: Give Me a Break in 2004, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity in 2007, and No They Can't! Why Government Fails but Individuals Succeed in 2012.

Early life

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. The family joined a Congregationalist church in the U.S., and Stossel was raised Protestant. He grew up on Chicago's affluent North Shore and graduated from New Trier High School. 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.

Personal life

Stossel lives in New York City with his wife, Ellen Abrams and children, Lauren and Max. They also own a home in Massachusetts.

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.

Stossel's brother, Thomas P. Stossel, was a Harvard Medical School professor and co-director of the Hematology Division at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has served on the advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Pfizer. Stossel's nephew is journalist and magazine editor Scott Stossel.

On April 20, 2016, Stossel announced he had lung cancer despite never having smoked, and that as a result of its early detection, he would have a fifth of one of his lungs surgically removed.

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Career

Stossel aspired to work at Seattle Magazine in high school, but the company was out of business by the time he graduated. Stossel began as a newsroom gofer, rising to researcher and then writer, and then to writer, thanks to his friends there. Stossel was advised by the news director, who pleaded with him to go on the air and read what he wrote for a few years. Despite his stage phobia, Stossel claims that his fear motivated him to excel, reviewing and imitating broadcasts of David Brinkley and Jack Perkins. Stossel had also stuttered since childhood. Stossel was hired by WCBS-TV in New York City by Ed Joyce, the same news director who fired Arnold Diaz, Linda Ellerbee, Joel Siegel, and Lynn Sherrr after a few years of on-air reporting. Stossel was dissatisfied with CBS's decision that the more limited amount of time spent on study lowered the quality of the newspaper's writing relative to Portland. Stossel claims that union labor laws barred him from doing extra work that Stossel felt encouraged employees to be innovative, which Stossel claims represented his "first true introduction to the deals made by special interests." Stossel also "hated" Joyce, who he described as "cold and critical," though Stossel praises Joyce for allowing him the freedom to explore his own story ideas and recommending the Hollins Communications Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia, who helped him to overcome Stossel's stutter.

Stossel grew more frustrated with having to follow the assignment editor's interpretation of what was news. Possibly because of his stuttering, he had never tried to cover what others were covering, fearing he would not succeed if he were to compete with other journalists by shouting out questions at news conferences. However, Stossel's surprise discovery that the most significant events, such as the women's movement, the rise of computer technology, and advancements in condomation, occurred later than daily activities such as government pronouncements, fires, or crime. Stossel bypassed the assignment editor to give Ed Joyce a list of story ideas that the assignment editor had rejected one day one day. Joyce agreed that Stossel's plans were better, and that they should have been accepted. Stossel has been a spokesperson for the Stuttering Foundation of America.

Roone Arledge, a former reporter for ABC News and consumer reporter for Good Morning America, gave Stossel a job at ABC News in 1981. The former "Give Me a Break" segments featured a critical look at topics ranging from government control and pop culture to censorship and unfounded anxiety. The sequence was turned into a series of one-hour specials with budgets of half a million dollars that began in 1994. Stossel discovered Reason magazine while writing 20/20 and discovered that the libertarian theories of its writers made sense to him. Stossel was named co-anchor of 20/20 in May 2003, when 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. He discusses how he got to promote libertarian convictions in it.

Stossel was formerly announced in September 2009 that it would leave Disney's ABC News and join News Corp.'s Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. In addition to appearing on The O'Reilly Factor every Tuesday night, he also produced a one-hour weekly program for Fox Business Network and a sequence of one-hour specials for Fox News Channel, as well as making regular guest appearances on Fox News television shows.

On Fox Business Network, Stossel's program debuted on December 10, 2009. The program investigated topics relating to individual rights, free market capitalism, and tiny government, such as civil liberties, health-care, and free trade. On December 16, 2016, the final episode appeared on television. Stossel, who portrayed scenes from seven years of the program, talked about how he wanted to help grow a younger generation of journalists with his words, and he'll continue to appear on Fox shows and also make Reason TV content. Both FoxBusiness.com and FoxNews.com have his blog, "Stossel's Take" from Tom Wesley's.

Stossel TV, an online channel that broadcasts weekly videos on social media sites, was launched in 2019. Videos challenge government policy and programs, demonstrate how free markets help people live better lives, and teach the principles and benefits of a free society.

Stossel has written three books. Take a break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, Scam Artists, and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media is a 2005 autobiography by Harper Perennial, chronicling his liberalism's intellectual transition from liberalism to libertarianism. It explains his opposition to government control, his belief in free market and private enterprise, support for tort reform, and calls for moving social care from the government to private charities. For 11 weeks, it was a New York Times bestseller. Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel – Why Everything You Know Is Wrong, the Hyperion Corporation's 2007 book which was published in 2007, questions various traditional wisdoms and claims that being conservative contradicts belief. Individuals succeed. Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster's imprint, published Stossel's third book No, Government Fails Why Government Fails – But Individuals Succeed. Government policies that were supposed to solve problems instead result in new ones, according to the journal, and free people and the private sector complete tasks more effectively than the government.

In 1999, Palmer R. Chitester Fund, Stossel, and ABC News all began a series of educational programs for public schools, titled "Stossel in the Classroom." The Center for Independent Thought took over the center for Independent Thought in 2006 and now has a new DVD of teaching materials every year. Teaching Tools for Economics, a video collection based on the National Council of Economics Education standards, was released by Stossel and ABC in 2006.

Stossel has been writing a weekly newspaper column for the Creators Syndicate since February 2011. His essays have appeared in such online publications as Newsmax, Reason, and Townhall.

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