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Politico reports:
“Two weeks ago, CNN rejected an advertisement from Media Matters and America’s Voice, an immigration reform group, to “drop” host Lou Dobbs because of his immigration views.
Today, America’s Voice announced that the “Drop Dobbs” ad will get some play in major markets beginning tonight on one of CNN’s rivals: It will air during MSNBC’s [...]
Think Progress reports that Fox News host Geraldo Rivera recently took Dobbs to task for the heated rhetoric so often surrounding the immigration debate. Rivera reportedly said: ” Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country.”
Dobbs, true to form, did not [...]
From Alternet:
Pobre CNN.
The cable news network hoped its “Latino In America” special — a two-night “journey into the homes and hearts of a minority group destined to change America” – would replicate the success of its Black In America series last year, which was watched by more than 13 million viewers. Instead, the series has [...]
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a great piece about the hypocrisy of CNN attempting to court latino viewers even as the network retains Lou Dobbs. From the Times piece:
…The anti-Dobbs campaign has, however, drawn considerable attention in the Spanish-language press; the Thursday front page of the New York newspaper El Diario featured a red [...]
Dobbs, who has repeatedly advanced “birther” conspiracy theories, again hosted discredited author Jerome Corsi on his radio show to laud him
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At an Atlanta panel discussion moderated by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, GALEO’s Executive Director Jerry Gonzalez responded to a pre-screening of the upcoming CNN special “Latino in America” by saying “Lou Dobbs is venom to the Latino community…Every night, the venom that Lou Dobbs spits out causes Shenandoahs to happen.”
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From Reyes’ October 16 USA Today column:
Dobbs might be just one voice, but if CNN expects to earn its proclamations as the “most trusted name in news,” it needs to, if not take on Dobbs by name, at least take on the very falsehoods he spreads. So outrageous have Dobbs’ claims become that Hispanic advocacy [...]
From the Associated Press:
CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores its own commentator Lou Dobbs, whose persistent advocacy against illegal immigration has angered many Hispanics.
Some activists have started an anti-Dobbs petition drive, and an advocacy group’s effort to criticize Dobbs within the documentary was turned down by CNN. [...]
