Sunday, February 12, 2012

Does CNN have credible reporters ?


           CNN is an American news broadcast. They bring to the population the latest news from all over the world. As they mention in their about us page, “CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and in bureaus worldwide, CNN.com relies heavily on CNN's global team of almost 4,000 news professionals. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from live video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information. The site is updated continuously throughout the day.  This page is diversity friendly since it has international, Mexican and Arabic translations for the page. It sounds like a perfect page where one can get reliable information, but how can a page diversity friendly have a man who is so discriminatory towards Latinos?
            Lou Dobbs is the name of the racist journalist who gave the news in CNN. Dobbs worked in CNN for more than 25 years since 1980. He was involved in the news then a radio station where he would talk about politics, economy and races in the Unites States. He would talk about illegal immigrants and question the citizenship of President Barak Obama. As we can see in the video Dobbs keep mentioning lies about Latinos such as that they bring diseases into the country. Also that those Latinos who are in jail are illegal, when in reality they are just non-citizens. He clearly mentions his support for the minutemen. Others reporters have confronted him about the stories about Latinos that he talks about, but his answer is “If we report it it’s a fact,” when it is not. Like the prison assertion of illegal immigrants, he admits that he misspoke. By  having a man like this in such important news broadcast it influence others to more hate crime, but it also brings questioning to the liability of the news CNN reports.
            Let’s speak up Latinos it was a movement created by Latinos to stop Dobbs for continuing in CNN news. Latinos have to work together to accomplish what they want and not let an anti-Latino dirty the name of Latinos. Bastadobbs.com is the page created to protest against Dobbs, and as it says on their webpage “Join the campaign: We did it! Bastadobbs.com Announces Victory. Lou Dobbs to leave CNN.”

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