“It’s been a while since a major American news organization treated an important national issue as irresponsibly as CNN now does immigration,” Tim Rutten says in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times.
He says CNN’s Lou Dobbs is taking “a page from Fox’s playbook” by offering up “lots of opinion aggressively presented with a recurring focus on the requisite obsession — in his case, illegal immigration and, to a lesser extent, what the correspondents on his nightly program have taken to calling ‘so-called free trade.'”
Rutten notes that Jon Klein called Dobbs “one of a kind,” and calls that “a sort of relief,” but adds: “It didn’t stop Klein from plastering Dobbs…and his views across every inch of the network all week long.” Here’s the rest…
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