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by Mark Silva and updated at 3:35 pm EDT
If CNN's Lou Dobbs drops the word "amnesty'' into most discussions of immigration, some of his critics say they aren't forgiving Dobbs.
An ad calling on CNN to drop Dobbs has been prepared by a group challengng the cable newsman's practices. The group claimed today that the ad will air on CNN, but the cable network says the group has its story wrong.
"Contrary to reports, CNN has not accepted these spots and they will not air on the network,'' a spokeswoman said this afternoon.
The cable news announcer's complaints about "broken borders'' have become a broken-record"60 minutes of anti-immigrant hate'' -- according to the group whose prepared ad solicits signatures on a petition to drop Dobbs.
Media Matters said it has partnered with America's Voice, with the help of "thousands of grassroots activists'' who responded to fundraising for the anti-Dobbs ad campaign, to produce an ad it planned to run Oct. 21 and 22 during the cable network's heavily promoted Latino in America series.
This was only the latest move by a group that has mounted a full-scale campaign against CNN's self-styled "advocacy journalist.'' But the ad will not go on, CNN says.
CNN, for its part, calls Dobbs "tough, relentless and independent.'' The anchor and managing editor of Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN says, "has won nearly every major award for television journalism'' -- including an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, a National Television Academy award in '04 and the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash.
Media Matters has complained about Dobbs' "history of anti-immigrant rhetoric'' and conflicts of interest, such as agreeing to speak at a fundraising rally for the anti-amnesty Federation for American Immigration Reform.
The "Drop Dobbs" campaign has drawn support from the National Council of La Raza, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, the New Democrat Network and the Southern Poverty Law Center. See their prepared ad above, and their case below:
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