Boycott CNN -Release Lou Dobbs of His "Tenous Relationship With the Truth"

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Now that groups around the country are beginning to organize hoping to bring in a more human rights perspective to the immigration debate, its time to consider the most powerful weapon immigrants and their supporters would have. Its very simple: stop watching CNN - stop checking the CNN webpage online. There are lots of possibilities if this were to become an organized movement. So remember, next time you want to see what is going on in the world, don't click on CNN, try another news source.
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Below is an article regarding Lou Dobbs and his false claim about leprosy:

Published on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 by The Nation
Lou Dobbs and Leprosy
by Katrina Vanden Heuvel


' “...Mr. Dobbs was flat-out wrong,” Leonhardt writes. But facts be damned, Dobbs is sticking by his numbers (”If we reported it, it’s a fact,” Dobbs said.)...'


Last week, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt wrote of Lou Dobbs’ tenuous relationship with the truth – “a somewhat flexible relationship with reality”– and his refusal to own up to an erroneous, fear-inducing report in violation of a basic journalistic creed.

It seems Dobbs wants to stick to a completely false assertion – first aired on his CNN program in 2005 and repeated again this May – that “there had been 7,000 cases of leprosy in this country over the previous three years, far more than in the past.” Dobbs attributed this increase to “unscreened illegal immigrants.”

Leonhardt reported that there have indeed been approximately 7,000 diagnosed cases – but not over the past three years as Dobbs would have viewers believe. Rather, these incidents occurred over a thirty-year period and have “dropped steadily” since a peak of 456 cases in 1983...

...[The] pattern of ignoring the facts and engaging in inflammatory rhetoric not only poisons an important national debate on immigration – as SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a recent web chat– it also places Dobbs in what Eviatar described as “a long line of illustrious, and notorious, Americans who have played pivotal roles in the nation’s periodic outbreaks of nativism….”

for complete article:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=202453