CNN Edits Out Dobbs Criticism From Taped Interview.
The New York Times reports that CNN “has not commented on the protests or covered them on its news programs.” But not only has CNN ignored the Dobbs protests, the network edited out criticism of Dobbs from civil rights lawyer Isabel Garcia during a taped interview with controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arapaio that aired on Anderson Cooper 360 this week:
[Garcia] who was featured in “Latino in America” and organized an anti-Dobbs protest in Tucson on Wednesday, said that CNN edited her comments about the anchor out of an interview. [...]
She said she called Mr. Arpaio and Mr. Dobbs “the two most dangerous men to our communities,” and said that “because of them, our communities are being terrorized in a real way.” She also asserted that CNN was “promoting lies and hate about our community” by broadcasting Mr. Dobbs’s program. The comments were not included when the interview was shown Wednesday night. “They heavily deleted what I did get to say,” she said.
This isn’t the first time CNN has circled the wagons around Dobbs.
Is Lou becoming a liability? I think that he is the only one at CNN with a pair quite frankly. It’s no wonder that CNN has crappy ratings. They refuse to do their work…responsible journalism is dead.
October 25, 2009 at 2:53 PM
I don’t get CNN, really. They’ve been, and still are, one of the Official Obama Cheerleading squads….and yet they do keep Dobbs, not exactly an Obama fan on their network. Are they trying to “fake” that they have some balance? Their regular programming is so bias and slanted but, oh it’s okay ‘cuz we have Dobbs??
October 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM
P.S. mcnorman, any idea what has happened to DE’s blog? I know the other day he posted an apology for not posting much b/c he had a lot of work to do. And the blog isn’t deleted, like shhh’s, it’s become private. Maybe a WP glitch?
October 25, 2009 at 3:16 PM
We are all worried about DE, but I have a feeling that he may have gotten some type of worm. It only makes sense that if it was a computer worm he would back up what he could and not turn the machine on without some tech help. Maybe his machine is in the shop? I am hoping that this is what has happened. I don’t think he would close down the blog without a forewarning.
October 25, 2009 at 3:13 PM
I think you hit it on the nail. Dobbs is their “safe” call for balanced news. Hacks. Dobbs is the only one that questions everything that zero does.
October 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
The same people that own BHO own the other side as well: there is no difference between any of the candidates from the 2 dem/rep parties. The same for the :news: outlets.
They are all on the same side– the oligarchs side– and that is not my or your side.
There is absolutely no difference in FOX, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, WSJ, NYT, etc they just rake in different slanted people with different slanted lies, but they are all raked into the same big gulag pile.
October 25, 2009 at 4:38 PM
It is a sham Nom. We are slowly coming to terms with all of this.
October 26, 2009 at 3:54 AM
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-rupert-murdoch-in-beijing-the-philistine-phase-of-the-digital-age-is-al/
Rupert Murdoch’s statement about paying for content on the internet
October 26, 2009 at 5:34 AM
What an ass.