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, John Stossel ends "20/20" with a TV column called "Give Me a Break," which challenges conventional wisdom. John 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 John Stossel "has the gift for entertaining while saying something profound." John Stossel takes this reporting expertise and applies it to his weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. Ready to cover topics newspaper readers care about, John 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. John 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. John 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!" John Stossel looked at the battle between free speech and censorship. John Stossel focused on bogus lawsuits in "The Trouble With Lawyers" and bogus scientific claims in "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So." John Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Among John Stossel's other awards are the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award. John Stossel 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) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I just got a free golf cart. Actually, it cost me $6,490 -- but the dealer, Colin Riley of Tucson, Ariz., points out that there's a $6,480 federal tax credit on such vehicles. Riley runs ads that say: "FREE ELECTRIC... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/12/16/free_stuff_from_sam cb9557c4-3bf6-4d50-be15-aadf68876194 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT People keep forwarding me emails and blog posts saying ABC fired me. Internet forums claim I was fired because I aired a story about the downside of government-controlled health care. This is silly. It's not even... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/12/09/abc_fired_stossel c1726d93-44f0-4033-b931-3dd76fa59d32 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The Federal Housing Administration announced this week that it wants tougher rules on mortgage lenders. It's about time. Maybe FHA got spooked by the recent New York Times story titled "Easy Loans to Wealthier... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/12/02/stop_insuring_mortgages 467f02df-c62f-4a1d-9432-eab1c59fbd48 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician. President Obama insists that health... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/11/25/we_pay_them_to_lie_to_us a47638b6-1bd3-4f3f-9111-b8c3924fa3a9 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Bill O'Reilly is mad at me because I'm not mad enough about taxes. Last week on "The O'Reilly Factor", we talked about California's and New York's enormous budget deficits and planned tax increases. Those states... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/11/18/worse_than_taxes 03789faa-3d0c-45e0-b1e1-eefb4f792f44 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries. I'm embarrassed that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/11/11/the_us_house_of_presumptuous_meddlers e73207a4-57b9-4897-86e7-fb858b8a437f Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud. Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel's speaking engagements as the latest... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/11/04/the_double_standard_about_journalists_bias fdebd478-ad4d-45c8-b61a-e4402b72755d Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a ham-handed, bumbling, one-size-fits-all approach... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/10/28/self-governance_works 5c510ac2-3686-4397-8c82-25429d85e2e6 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Pundits and politicians act as if government can solve almost any problem. At the slightest hint of trouble, the ruling class reflexively assumes that knowledgeable, wise and public-spirited government regulators are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/10/21/a_nobel_prize_for_showing_that_freedom_works f1b97478-e377-4a62-9580-0b113f1579e5 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Michael Moore is confused. His new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," begins by suggesting that all was well until Ronald Reagan became president and cut the top 90 percent income tax rate. Everything was downhill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/10/14/whats_michael_moore_talking_about ed4a38ce-a0c1-4045-a2b5-c7e28257d44c Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist, Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/10/07/transfer_machine 49488008-6afd-4736-8408-7b123301f045 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT This Friday, September's job-loss total will be announced. Whatever the numbers, administration officials surely will tell us that life is better -- because of them. "We brought the global economy back from the brink,"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/09/30/success_no_matter_what 2d6ee960-a886-40ef-9552-6becd1f532ed Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT When I announced last week that I was leaving ABC for Fox, some readers complained about my "bias." I replied: "Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is that I am upfront about mine." Look at today's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/09/23/going_to_fox_ii eaf2c842-e513-4470-9a82-31198403f671 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT It's time for a change. Next month, I leave ABC News to start a weekly one-hour prime time show with Fox News. When I announced that on my blog, plenty of viewers said they were happy to have me leave. "Goodbye.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/09/16/im_moving_to_fox 7b83da32-3996-41ac-bc3f-f241a4519759 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT I wish President Obama would say to Congress: Members of Congress, I ask you to address our fiscal emergency. In 1964, President Johnson won a landslide victory -- quite similar to mine. His election also brought... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/09/09/obamas_speech_tonight d8b8d1de-7340-4b36-937a-4e97deada281 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT