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Lou Dobbs leaving CNN, does not reveal his plans
Dobbs, whose ratings have been on the decline, said he had been released from his contract, effective immediately, and wanted “to contribute positively to the understanding of the great issues of our day ... in the most honest and direct language possible.”
A CNN source told Reuters Dobbs will be concentrating on his syndicated radio show, “The Lou Dobbs Show.” The source would not confirm a New York Times report that he had met with Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of the Fox News channel, the News Corp-owned rival to CNN, a unit of Time Warner Inc.
CNN had been under pressure from civil rights and Latino groups to drop Dobbs from its lineup, accusing the host of aligning himself with anti-immigrant groups that critics say espouse hate messages.
“It’s about time. He was doing CNN no good,” said Nativo Lopez, head of the California-based Mexican-American Political Association that promotes the interests of Mexican-Americans in the United States and is part of a campaign against Dobbs.
“His is not a debate based on science or reason, it’s based on prejudice, it’s based on racial overtones, it’s based on profiling and an obsessive fixation on immigrants from Mexico,” said Lopez.
As a radio host, Dobbs also drew criticism by appearing to stoke the so-called “birther” movement, whose adherents believe that President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate was faked to hide a Kenyan birthplace, making the first black US president ineligible for office.
Dobbs said he was considering “a number of options and directions.” His contract was due to end in 2011. “For the past six months it has become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us,” Dobbs said.
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