ABC News correspondent John Stossel comes under harsh scrutiny in a January 7, 2002 Nation article. Journalist Mark Dowie looks into Stossel's rise from humble consumer-interest reporter to million-dollar network star. As network news divisions were forced to become profit centers in early 90s, network executives wanted "talent" to sell the new news product. "Professional attention-grabbers ... became free-market winners. By cleverly blending blue-collar social values with Wall Street economic values, they got rich," writes Dowie. "And a handsome young Princeton graduate, confused about his politics but certain of his ambition, followed their lead. [Stossel] dropped the Naderite stories, became a hero of the libertarian right and got rich." PR Watch has also followed Stossel's journalistic endeavors [3], in which he regularly distorts and misrepresents the facts to the benefit of big business.