I didn't know anything about this author or book, so I went into this one with no expectations. It was like watching a marathon series of 10-minute senationalist news stories aimed at "revealing the truth". Take the most complicated issues and reduce them to an interview where four or five statements are used to prove your point, and set everyone straight. The most salient feature of Stossel's thinking is that "government" is this big bad monster trying to ruin our way of life — perhaps similiar to how the Iraqi's feel about us now. Of course there was no discussion of how those government processes work — no debate, no elections, etc. This guy is trying to be a sensationalist journlist, attacking "sensationalist" journalists and using the same tricks. I didn't know what to make of many of his revelations — not knowing the specific facts — but when he said that there was no difference between Starbucks coffee and Folgers, I knew he didn't know what he was talking about, not even realizing the difference between arabica and robusto coffee! This book was on the New York Times best seller list for a couple months in the summer of 2006.