Was John Stossel once again tampering with truth?
A group of California parents who feel they were misled by ABC News correspondent John Stossel revoked their permission for ABC News to use their children’s images or voices in his latest program. The original footage had to be cut at the parents’ request. The eight Los Angeles-area children were interviewed by Stossel on Earth Day, 2001 for his special, Tampering with Nature, which aired Friday, June 29. In a June 25 letter to Stossel and other ABC News officials, parents of the children interviewed told Stossel that he and his staff obtained permission to interview the children in violation of the Society for Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics (under “Minimize Harm”). The parents said they were not told of Stossel’s involvement with the show when ABC got their written permission to allow their children to be interviewed. They also said they were misled about the nature of the show, and would never have granted permission for their children to be interviewed had the nature of th
