When Henry Kissinger turned up for a recent speech at the National Press Club, he was concerned about the question-and-answer segment. The moderator accommodated his wishes and withheld probing questions.

Writer Marianne Manilov interviews some of the teachers and parents involved in John Stossel's interviews for his upcoming "scared green" report and gets their version of what happened during the interview. "He started asking leading questions and it was very clear what he wanted to get," says environmental educator John Quigley, who witnessed the interviews. "He would say, 'Wow, it's really scary, isn't it?' And the kids weren't scared at all and so they just looked at him. He asked that question repeatedly. ... These were bright kids, and they were responding well.

A group of California parents who feel they were misled by ABC News correspondent John Stossel have revoked their permission for ABC News to use their children's images or voices in an upcoming program. The eight Los Angeles-area children were interviewed by Stossel on Earth Day, 2001 for his upcoming special, "Tampering with Nature," set to air Friday, June 29. In a letter to Stossel and other ABC News officials, each parent who had signed a permission form says that Stossel and his staff violated the Code of Ethics of the Society for Professional Journalists.