Tuesday, April 20, 2010

CNN's fair and balanciness

CNN got rid of Lou Dobbs' show a while ago.

OK, that makes sense. CNN has moved to presenting the news from a neutral viewpoint, in contrast to Fox Television's becoming Republican TV and MSNBC becoming Democratic Party TV.

Lou Dobbs vociferously opposes illegal immigration (while being fine with legal immigration--a point lost on many who complained about his TV show). Most of his shows did a segment on it. He did bring on those on all sides of this issue, but his own viewpoint was anti-, to be sure.

So far so good. But for quite a while CNN's 3-5pm daily slot has been occupied by someone who thumps the tub in favor of illegal immigrants, pretty much as strongly as Dobbs did against, and in a similar time slot. This anchor's name is Ricardo Leon Sánchez de Reinaldo (he goes by "Rick Sanchez").

I conclude that CNN isn't neutral on immigration. It's on the side of pandering to those promoting illegal immigration and demanding citizenship for illegals, and it got rid of Dobbs for arousing the ire of such people.

This will be the case unless or until CNN gets Ricardo Sanchez to quit advocating for illegals or gets rid of him, as it got rid of Dobbs.

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