Media Matters uses Colorado immigration debate as prime example of bias on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight
| By Heather McGregor - Mar 27th, 2006 at 7:00 pm EST |
| Also listed in: Responsible Immigration Reform |
Today's front page on the web site Media Matters for America features a story on the right-leaning bias of CNN news show host Lou Dobbs, using the Jan. 10 appearance of two Colorado guests as a prime example.
That show featured Wade Buchanan, president of Bell Policy Center, and Fred Elbel, co-chairman of Defend Colorado Now, in what was billed ahead of time as a discussion of the DCN's proposed ballot issue on immigration. Neither Wade nor Fred got a chance to say much, as Dobbs used the airtime mostly for a pointless argument over semantics.
"It was unfortunate that we missed the chance to debate an important issue facing Colorado," Buchanan said Monday. "Dobbs seems to have guests serve only as foils for his rhetoric."
The show aired just two weeks after Bell Policy Center released an issue brief on existing immigration research. The brief also takes a position opposing the Defend Colorado Now initiative, and explains why it will do nothing to solve the problems caused by illegal immigration.
To read the 20-page brief, go to the Bell's website, www.thebell.org
That show featured Wade Buchanan, president of Bell Policy Center, and Fred Elbel, co-chairman of Defend Colorado Now, in what was billed ahead of time as a discussion of the DCN's proposed ballot issue on immigration. Neither Wade nor Fred got a chance to say much, as Dobbs used the airtime mostly for a pointless argument over semantics.
"It was unfortunate that we missed the chance to debate an important issue facing Colorado," Buchanan said Monday. "Dobbs seems to have guests serve only as foils for his rhetoric."
The show aired just two weeks after Bell Policy Center released an issue brief on existing immigration research. The brief also takes a position opposing the Defend Colorado Now initiative, and explains why it will do nothing to solve the problems caused by illegal immigration.
To read the 20-page brief, go to the Bell's website, www.thebell.org
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