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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 [...]
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 [...]
I have not seen Lou Dobbs more than a dozen times. At first, I sort of admired his outspokenness against corrupt, exploitative corporations such as Enron, and others even after that scandal dissipated. As I learned more about him, I have come to see him as a representation of the way in which our country [...]
Mr. Lou Dobbs represents a tired attempt to speak for “the people.” Of course, he is at the soft front of the larger and more hardened “Populist” cadre, such as the Minutemen and other buttoned-up ideological militias. What is pernicious about this “fluffy” media point of view, this paternal figure that fans its winks and [...]
I can’t comment on his television show as I don’t watch TV news, but the written opinions of Lou Dobbs on CNN.com are fueled by bluster and scare tactics. He criticizes Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte for “tortured reasoning” and New York Governor Eliot Spitzer of “flail[ing] against the facts,” but Dobbs uses neither reason [...]
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