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Dobbs' Resignation Was Long Overdue

Janet Murguía, AlterNet. November 21, 2009.
My problems with Dobbs surfaced more than two years ago, during the debate over the last version of immigration reform.

CNN Paid Lou Dobbs $8 Million to Quit

Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Media and Technology. November 16, 2009.
That's a hell of a severance package.

Lou Dobbs Is History at CNN ... Now What?

Angelo Falcón, New America Media. November 14, 2009.
Will we be seeing more Latino executives, anchors, commentators, contributors, and producers at CNN?

Relentless Pressure from Progressive Groups Pushes Hatemonger Lou Dobbs Out of CNN

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. November 12, 2009.
Groups like BastaDobbs have done in Dobbs, who used his media platform to stir up racist, anti-immigrant hysteria for years.

John Harwood Draws Delusional Equivalence Between Fox and Other Cable Nets

Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. November 2, 2009.
Real conservatives want to go where they feel completely at home and can get what they want full strength.

This Someone-Shot-at-Me Nonsense Is the Last Straw: CNN Should Fire Lou Dobbs

Roberto Lovato, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. October 31, 2009.
By allowing Dobbs to use the incident to level spurious attacks at his critics, CNN is is seriously undermining its claim to be "the most trusted name in news."

Was CNN Host Lou Dobbs Really Shot at?

Isabel Macdonald, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 30, 2009.
Statements by New Jersey state police are putting Dobbs' claim that he and his wife had been shot at into question.

Anti-Dobbs Movement Overshadows CNN's "Latino In America" Special

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. October 23, 2009.
CNN's much publicized series was largely eclipsed by controversy over CNN's resident xenophobe, Lou Dobbs.

Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs If He Could

Linda Milazzo, AlterNet AlterNet: Media and Technology. October 19, 2009.
Kind of an emphatic statement, but Ted Turner did say so explicitly

The Scariest Part of The "Balloon Boy" Story

Lee Camp, AlterNet AlterNet: Media and Technology. October 19, 2009.
You've heard the expression, "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." Perhaps we need a new one: "Watching the balloon go by."

CNN Must Drop Dobbs

Kos, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. October 14, 2009.
It's ugly stuff, and CNN can't ignore it forever. The network has a choice. Either attract Latino viewers, or alienate them. It certainly can't do both.

CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. October 14, 2009.
Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

Is Lou Dobbs, CNN's Resident Bigot, on His Way Out?

Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 29, 2009.
Protest campaigns urging CNN to dump Dobbs are gathering momentum. Will 'the most trusted name in news' do the right thing?

Dobbs Plays the Victim, as Movement Demanding CNN Dump Him Grows

Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. September 21, 2009.
Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to try and distract from his long history of anti-immigrant views.

CNN Wonders Whether Depictions of Obama as African Witch Doctor Might Be a Tiny Bit Racist

Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. September 18, 2009.
They're not exactly going out on a limb here are they?

Video: It's Time to Drop Lou Dobbs

Media Matters, Media Matters for America AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009.
America's Voice, the National Council of La Raza and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, want CNN to dump Lou Dobbs for spouting racially-charged conspiracy theories.