Abuse of the media?: Lou Dobbs

“Columnists do not like to have any media beat them to the punch on any column topic.

This time, however, I must confess that on Sunday, CBS 60 Minutes grilled Lou Dobbs, CNN television personality and anti-immigrant activist, on his journalistic credentials. Leslie Stahl did a thorough job in trying to pin Dobbs on how a journalist could justify his anti-immigrant activism. ”
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“When asked specifically why he would not correct mistakes made on his show — Ms. Stahl mentioned one specifically — Dobbs did not even bother to question the inconsistency. His reply, and I paraphrase, was “our statistics are always correct, as a managing editor I always make sure of that.” Dobbs never replied directly to the discrepancy that Stahl mentioned. “

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