Media Outlet / Personality: Disney/John Stossel

Became co-anchor of ABC’s news magazine show 20/20 in 2003 and hosts an extended segment called “Family Fix.” In 1994, his 20/20 segment Give Me a Break became an one hour weekly special. He offers a libertarian view on economic and social issues.

"I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market."

--ABC News correspondent John Stossel (Oregonian, 10/26/94)



Extra!: In Denial on Climate Change: Leading pundits reject science on global warming (May/June 2007) By Peter Hart

Economy Extra!: Stossel’s "Stupid" Schools: A beginner’s course in deceptive reporting (May/June 2006) By Peter Hart and Janine Jackson

CounterSpin: Jim Lobe on Rumsfeld & Latin America, Chad Graham on 20/20 & Matthew Shepard (12/3/04)

Action Alert: Will ABC Balance Stossel's Election Year Axe-Grinding? (7/30/04)

Action Alert: Eisner's Fantasyland Excuse for Censorship (5/7/04)

Action Alert: Does Stossel Deserve a Promotion? (5/23/03)

Extra!: Give Us a Break: The world according to John Stossel (March/April 2003) By Peter Hart

Extra!: The Stossel Treatment: Selective editing and other unethical tactics (March/April 2003) By Rachel Coen

Action Alert: Will Stossel Endorse Phony "Lynxgate" Story? (8/2/02)

Action Alert: Stossel Tampers with the Facts (7/17/01)

Action Alert: Stossel's Shoddy Reporting on Government Waste: ABC's Free-Market Booster Needs Some Competition (2/7/01)

Press Release: Stossel's Distortions Finally Catching Up With Him? (8/7/00)

Action Alert: Stossel Fabricated Data on Organics, Researchers Say (8/1/00)

Press Release: FAIR's Correspondence with ABC RE: John Stossel Organics Report (2/22/00)

Press Release: For ABC's John Stossel, Workers' Safety Is Regulatory Excess (2/7/00)

Action Alert: For ABC's John Stossel, Workers' Safety Is Regulatory Excess (2/4/00)

Action Alert: In Attack on Public Schools, Did ABC's Stossel Do His Homework? (11/24/99)

Action Alert: FAIR Responds to ABC's John Stossel: Stossel's New Mistakes and Evasions (11/11/99)

Activism Update: A Response by Stossel and Some of His Staff to the Group "FAIR" (11/6/99)

Action Alert: Stossel Spins Science Funding (10/26/99)

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