http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/john_stossel This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: John Stossel en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200709160003 During a one-hour report on ABC's 20/20 on "America's health-care system," co-host John Stossel interviewed five advocates of free-market approaches to health care but only one advocate of increased government-mandated health coverage. The five free-market advocates were interviewed on air for a total of 6 minutes, 24 seconds, while the lone advocate of a public health system, filmmaker Michael Moore, was interviewed on air for a total of 1:40. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709160003 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:27:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709150001 <em>Good Morning America</em> aired a preview of John Stossel's "Whose Body is it Anyway? Sick in America," which contained an interview with one expert, David Gratzer, whom Stossel identified only as an author and "Canadian doctor." Stossel failed to note that Gratzer is a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute or that the World Health Organization ranks Canada and Great Britain -- whose nationalized health systems he criticized for their long waits -- ahead of the United States in its ranking of world health systems. At the end of Stossel's report, Diane Sawyer told him: "It is so hard to get perspective on this. Thank heaven you're doing it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200709150001 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:42:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:13:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200702260007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702260007 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:59:25 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200609270002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609270002 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:12:53 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607260009 John Stossel attacked the methodology of a Department of Education study demonstrating nearly identical levels of academic achievement among public and private elementary school students, claiming that "[t]he researchers tortured the data" by using regression analysis -- a universally used statistical tool that even Stossel admitted is "valid." http://mediamatters.org/items/200607260009 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:53:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607170003 On MSNBC's <em>Countdown</em>, host Keith Olbermann reported that <em>The Gazette</em> newspaper of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has dropped the column of right-wing pundit Ann Coulter because of complaints from conservatives, and that Louisiana's <em>Shreveport Times</em> is considering a similar move. Olbermann also named Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera and ABC host John Stossel among the recipients of that day's "Worst Person in the World" awards. http://mediamatters.org/items/200607170003 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:35:35 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607140010 On Fox News' <em>Your World</em>, ABC anchor John Stossel advocated the legal sale of organs, citing the fact that "hot dogs don't spoil when we get to them" as evidence that "the market figures out ways to make these things work." http://mediamatters.org/items/200607140010 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:14:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607100007 Promoting his new book on Fox News' <em>Dayside</em>, John Stossel claimed that global warming is "[p]robably not" a "big problem" and attacked Al Gore's movie on the issue, <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>, saying, "Many scientists do not agree," that global warming is a "big problem," "despite what you hear in the Al Gore movie." http://mediamatters.org/items/200607100007 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:53:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200606300003 On MSNBC's <em>Scarborough Country</em>, ABC's John Stossel attacked former Vice President Al Gore and delivered a stream of false and misleading claims on global warming. Noting that Gore "implies the argument" about global warming "is over," Stossel repeatedly attempted to downplay, obscure, or deny the threat posed by human-induced global climate change, as depicted in Gore's documentary film <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>. In fact, the vast majority of climate scientists agree that global warming is occurring and that human activity is contributing to the problem. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606300003 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:35:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605160002 On ABC's <em>Good Morning America</em>, John Stossel, co-host of ABC's <em>20/20</em>, claimed that it is a "myth" that "women earn less" than men for "doing the same work." Stossel acknowledged that women "earn less" than men overall, and concluded that "[t]he truth is" that "men are more willing to take lousy jobs" and "work longer," and that is why they yield higher wages. In fact, contrary to Stossel's suggestion that men earn more because they take "lousy jobs," numerous studies and data indicate that, on average, men earn more than women regardless of occupation. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605160002 Tue, 16 May 2006 12:08:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200605150002 On Fox News' <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em>, ABC News <em>20/20</em> co-anchor John Stossel trivialized global temperature increases, stating "[t]he globe is warming, but it's one degree." In fact, scientists have determined that the approximately 1 degree <i>Fahrenheit</i> <a href="#correction">*</a> increase in global temperature during the 20th century has adversely affected several ecosystems and that a continuation of warming trends could be detrimental to humankind. http://mediamatters.org/items/200605150002 Mon, 15 May 2006 12:08:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200601200003 ABC's John Stossel presented a "special report" on the failure of American public schools that included a series of misleading claims, a lack of balance in reporting and interviews, and video clips apparently created primarily for entertainment to argue for expanding "school choice" initiatives such as vouchers and charter schools. http://mediamatters.org/items/200601200003 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:53:07 EST