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That, undoubtedly, is the prerogative of every citizen in a free, democratic society. But CBS Evening News thinks otherwise. In a recent news story (”Illegal Immigrant Births - At Your Expense,” April 7, 2008) about the citizenship status of children born to undocumented U.S. immigrants, the newscast has given up on objectivity [...]
Earlier this week, Junot Diaz became the second U.S. Latino to win a Pulitzer prize for fiction for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The novel had already earned the 2007 National Books Critics Circle Award.
Diaz, 39, was born in the Dominican Republican, and arrived in the U.S. in 1974. He [...]
With the heat of the presidential primaries at a record level, one TV network covering the campaign is emerging a winner: CNN. The thoughtful team of specialists isn’t eclipsing the candidates’ words, which is a welcome respite to viewers often bombarded with inimical commentary by know-it-alls. Indeed, the political symmetry within the team allows for [...]
In a time when the national temper calls for reason in the solution of problems facing the American people, a powerful media venue like CNN mixes jingoism with (advocacy) journalism, not just with Lou Dobbs but with Nancy Grace and others. Fox News is not any better. Networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC have pretty [...]
In the eyes of his supporters, Lou Dobbs is a populist, the rare broadcast journalist standing up to big business, self-serving politicians, and what he likes to call “ethnosociocentric” special-interest groups.
Dobbs, a former Peabody Award-winner, has characterized himself as a political independent, an adherent of “advocacy journalism.” His advocacy comes most notably – frequently [...]
The title of this discussion, “Lou Dobbs: Populist or Prejudiced,” presupposes that these are mutually exclusive terms. In fact, this country has a long history of prejudiced populism, from Theodore Roosevelt to George Wallace and beyond. Lou Dobbs is a prejudiced populist. His reaction to immigration is so obsessive, so overwrought, so irrational that it can [...]
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