Monday, May 09, 2005
Dobbs Runs Amok at CNN
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman writes: Everything we know we learned from television:
-- Remember Lou Dobbs on CNN back in the good old days of the tech boom? The country was fat with cash. Dobbs was fat -- you know, with presence. He was authoritative and booming and there were dollar signs in his eyes.
Then the market imploded. And now Dobbs is running amok inciting the nation about undocumented immigrants while CNN chooses to do nothing about his fear-mongering. Gone are the business stories. Now Dobbs is an issue guy -- long before CNN forced perfectly good news anchors like Aaron Brown to become really good feature story narrators, Dobbs already had his single-item newscast. And that item was the influx of foreigners. Undocumented immigrants. "Broken borders," as his graphics read. Or America under siege from Mexicans. The man has immigration on his mind in the worst way, and CNN is letting him scare the bejesus out of the red states with nary a concern that he may have abandoned his anchor chair for a bully pulpit. MORE
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