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This week, CNN aired a new four-hour documentary called “ Latino in America ,” exploring how Latinos are reshaping American communities and culture. The broadcast sparked protests in cities around the country , including outside CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, with minority ...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican Party's favorable rating
among Americans is at lowest level in at least...
a quarter century, according to a new national poll. Thirty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation ...
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CNN Poll: GOP favorable rating lowest in 25 years
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - Six in 10 Americans support
a "cap and trade" proposal to cut pollution, according...
to a new national poll. Sixty percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say they favor "cap and trade," a ...
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CNN Poll: 6 in 10 back 'cap and trade'
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CNN Edits Out Dobbs Criticism From Taped Interview
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
From ThinkProgress: [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 ...
Stand by your man (if you're CNN and he's Lou Dobbs)
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... Think Progress has the details. See also Yglesias: For all that, if CNN wants to stand by Dobbs then, fine, they should stand by Dobbs. But if they want to stand by Dobbs then they should ...
Feeling Dobbs-related embarrassment
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... 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. The crux of what Garcia had to say specifically dealt with a CNN host, so CNN decided those comments had to be left on the cutting room floor. The network that's had to cover for Dobbs' tendencies before continues to feel at least some embarrassment. ...
Lou Dobbs doesn’t like brown people
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... 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. ...
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The Associated Press: CNN's Latino special avoids Dobbs
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CNN Scuttles Anti-Dobbs Ad
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CNN is declining to carry a national advertisement, purchased by two progressive groups, which attacks its host Lou Dobbs for his controversial views on immigration.
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The New York Times manages to produce an article about the controversy over Lou Dobbs that doesn’t really offer any specific examples of what Dobbs’ critics are talking about. But to get a flavor, the man’s ...
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The Obama family portrait.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - The official first family portrait was unveiled Thursday on the White House Flickr page. The photo was snapped by renowned ...
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