Award-winning news correspondent John Stossel is co-anchor of ABC News "20/20." Eight million to 10 million people watch his program weekly. Often, he ends "20/20" with a TV column called "Give Me a Break," which challenges conventional wisdom. Stossel's prime-time specials on myths, parenting issues, sex and trends in pop culture rate among the top news programs and have earned him uncommon praise: "The most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time," said The Dallas Morning News. The Orlando Sentinel said he "has the gift for entertaining while saying something profound." Stossel takes this reporting expertise and applies it to his weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. Ready to cover topics newspaper readers care about, Stossel pokes fun at the ridiculous and lauds the excellent. Newspaper editors may wonder whether Stossel's incredible TV ratings will translate from TV to print. The answer to that question is a resounding yes: Last year, HarperCollins published Stossel's book "Give Me a Break," and readers (the same ones who read newspapers) made it a New York Times bestseller for 11 weeks. Stossel's most recent special, "Lies, Myths, and Downright Stupidity," exposed myths about gun control, leisure time and the garbage "crisis." "John Stossel Goes to Washington" looked at how, under Democrats and Republicans, government keeps growing, while "Tampering with Nature" suggested that some environmentalists go overboard and most tampering is a good thing. Stossel's first special -- "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?" -- examined exaggerated fears of things like chemicals and crime. It was followed by "The Blame Game," which looked at Americans' tendency to blame their misfortunes on others. In "You Can't Say That!" he looked at the battle between free speech and censorship. He focused on bogus lawsuits in "The Trouble With Lawyers" and bogus scientific claims in "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So." Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Among his other awards are the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award. He is a graduate of Princeton University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "It's been described as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. And it brings with it grave dangers for all American families ... ," said Martin Bashir on "Nightline." "Recession looms ....... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/07/02/dire_news_from_my_colleagues 97ff0ad1-1f9f-4794-aee0-3cf39d526239 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT "I believe there needs to be a thorough and complete investigation of speculators to find out whether speculation has been going on and, if so, how much it has affected the price of a barrel of oil. There's a lot... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/25/bless_the_speculator 87bf3750-925d-4ae5-bfa9-617fdd6fcc28 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The other day, reading the New York Post's popular Page Six gossip page, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: "ABC'S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/18/legalize_all_drugs baf760b3-576a-4672-904c-8408272d9607 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about "entitlements"? That's the government's ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/11/the_entitlement_mess 6a54ea6e-9dac-4128-813b-98dbfe3d034c Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT If John McCain becomes president, will he leave me alone? You might think so. After all, he's got Grover Norquist in his corner, and Norquist wrote "Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/04/will_mccain_let_us_fight aa029941-2d11-42c1-9330-029a6db1af45 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise the price of oil, as well as most everything else, and lower the value of the pension and mutual funds that union members and retirees depend on. Of course, they don't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/05/28/windfall-profit_nonsense 05d49c3d-ff97-438c-a670-f9e503ae162a Wed, 28 May 2008 11:01:00 GMT "Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, ... we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/05/21/mccain_finds_his_crisis_in_global_warming 362729e8-d225-4b75-88ff-b14b5f13bfba Wed, 21 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Who will be our next president? If you want an accurate guess, don't ask the pundits. Go where people put their money where their mouths are. Intrade.com, for example. It's a prediction market, basically a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/05/14/government_stifles_the_wisdom_of_crowds c5ff1dee-aaa6-4601-8235-bd4224152bc2 Wed, 14 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT She was once the darling of conservatives like Newt Gingrich, but now you can't watch a television news-talk program without seeing her calling for more government and showing scorn for those who want less. She's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/05/07/the_left_is_wrong 0c6f4f21-8750-451a-bdeb-04d0d76b2da8 Wed, 07 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Unless the government watches closely, the airlines will kill you. That seems to be what many reporters and politicians believe. "The result of inspection failures and enforcement failure [by the Federal Aviation... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/04/30/the_conceit_of_the_regulators 2cc72533-da00-4883-9881-216268f955d1 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT "Mortgage Crisis," shouts the New York Times. The Times has used the term "subprime crisis" at least 11 times. Not in opinion columns -- in news stories. The columns are worse. Paul Krugman writes: "A lot of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/04/23/the_skys_not_falling a474ef57-151e-4716-83c5-60f7085b5ca9 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT "Stossel, who often touts his belief in 'market magic,' attacks lawyers who represent consumers and others harmed by corporations, and wants instead to let corporate America police itself. This is the same corporate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/04/16/market_magic 27588719-49c5-4b6b-8b6e-aced5c4ef6ad Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT "We cannot use force." That was my response last week when a lawyer shouted at me, "You media types are bullies, too!" We were arguing about my Wall Street Journal op-ed that called class-action and securities... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/04/09/bullies 06b8b8e2-1c73-4416-ba40-3fe0daae02c9 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT The cat is finally out of the bag. A California appellate court, ruling that parents have no constitutional right to homeschool their children, pinned its decision on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/04/02/threat_to_homeschooling 2cd97a93-1105-4b5e-9299-cbd1ffe1688e Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT In my last two columns, I discussed the cases of young people who were placed on sex-offender registries because their sexual partners were below the age of consent. For the rest of their lives, any neighbor or employer... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/03/26/law_cant_prevent_underage_sex 53c73e33-cbc8-4cf9-b3e0-ce5558a98615 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT