Lou Dobbs

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Lou Dobbs speaks at CPAC 2015 in Washington, DC

Louis Carl 'Lou' Dobbs (born September 24, 1945 in Childress , Texas ) is an American journalist . He was best known for his many years as a presenter of business programs for the news channels CNN and Fox News .

Life

Lou Dobbs was born the son of entrepreneur Frank Dobbs and his wife, Lydia Mae Hensley, an accountant. When his parents' propane business went bankrupt, Dobbs moved to Rupert , Idaho, at the age of twelve . He attended Minico High School in Minidoka County and later Harvard University , where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1967. After graduating, Dobbs initially worked on poverty reduction projects in Boston and Washington DC, and later as a consultant for Union Bank in Los Angeles.

In 1969 Dobbs married Debi Lee Segura, and a little later the first of four children was born. Despite his good earnings at Union Bank, he decided to pursue a career as a journalist. In 1970 the family moved to Yuma (Arizona) , where Dobbs reported on police and fire services as a correspondent for the radio station KBLU-AM. In the following years Dobbs worked as a reporter in Phoenix and for the station KING-TV in Seattle.

1979 Dobbs was hired by an employee of the media entrepreneur Ted Turner as an employee for the newly founded television station CNN, which began broadcasting in 1980. At CNN, Dobbs initially acted as the station's financial expert. In this capacity he moderated the programs Moneyline and Business Unusual for many years . He served temporarily as the station's deputy chairman and sat on the board of directors, and he also founded the CNN offshoot CNNfn.

After an argument with CNN director Kaplan, whom Dobbs accused of being overly close to then US President Clinton and partisan reporting in his favor, he left the station. After his departure, he took on the role of CEO at the Internet startup Space.com, a website that deals with space travel.

In 2001, a year after Kaplan's departure from CNN, Dobbs returned at the request of Ted Turner to the station on which he hosted the political program Lou Dobbs Tonight . Since March 2008 he has also hosted a four-hour weekday radio program, The Lou Dobbs Show . Because of some controversial statements about illegal immigration, the economic policy under the US Presidents Bush and Obama and the allegedly forged Obama's birth certificate, he came under increasing criticism. According to his own information, there were also calls for his resignation in his own station. On November 11, 2009, he announced in his broadcast that he would no longer work for CNN. The contract with the broadcaster, which ran until 2011, was terminated by mutual agreement.

Political positions

Dobbs was originally conservative on economic issues. He is now advocating minimum wages. He opposed the Bush administration's tax cuts, from which he believed only a minority benefited. In recent years he has also criticized the “capitalist economic policy” with its phenomena such as globalization and oil drilling off the US coast.

While Dobbs was an avowed supporter of the Republican Party in earlier years, he has affirmed his non-partisan independence in his younger years. In 2000 he supported George W. Bush's presidential candidacy with a donation of $ 1,000.

Another issue that Dobbs frequently picks up on is the threat he believes posed by illegal immigration to the United States, particularly from Mexico. He is criticized in this context for the aggressive manner with which he tries to prove the correctness of his position. For example, in 2005 Dobbs claimed that illegal emigration contributed to the dramatic spread of leprosy in the United States; a New York Times report stated that these and other claims by Dobbs were inaccurate. He also claimed in 2003 that a third of all prisoners in the US were illegal immigrants. However, there were z. In the year 2000, for example, only 6.4% of all persons imprisoned in state and federal prisons without permanent residence permits, compared to 6.8% of the total population.

Lou Dobbs represents numerous controversial positions and conspiracy theories , some of which can be attributed to the extreme right ; according to him, the claim that Barack Obama is not a US citizen deserves to be taken seriously; he believed that human-made climate change was a politically motivated lie; US policy is controlled by a so-called deep state ; and a number of bomb attacks on supporters of the Democratic Party were orchestrated by them. For the latter, he was also heavily criticized by colleagues at FOX News.

Awards

Dobbs has received numerous awards for his journalistic work. So with the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and the Cable Ace Award. He also received the George Foster Peabody Award for his report on the financial collapse in 1987 and the Luminary Award of the Business Journalism Review (1990), the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans (1999) and the National Space Club Media Award (2000 ).

In 1993 he was voted Father of the Year.

Fonts

  • Exporting America. Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas. 2004.
  • Space. The next business frontier. 2005.
  • War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back. 2006.
  • Independents Day. Awakening The American Spirit. 2007.
  • The Trump Century: How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever "(with Dennis Kneale) 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biography.com
  2. ↑ Fox News : Lou Dobbs Tonight , accessed December 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/04/061204fa_fact1?currentPage=all
  4. ↑ a b http://www.newsbios.com/newslum/dobbs.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/business/media/12dobbs.html
  6. ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/11/lou.dobbs.leaving/index.html
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newsmeat.com
  8. ↑ David Leonhardt: Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs NYT, May 30, 2007
  9. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonside.html
  10. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/29/birthers-obama-citizenship-republicans
  11. ↑ https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060104671
  12. ↑ https://thehill.com/homenews/media/370469-lou-dobbs-its-time-to-declare-war-on-deep-state
  13. ↑ https://www.businessinsider.de/lou-dobbs-tweet-conspiracy-theory-democrats-mail-bombs-2018-10?r=UK
  14. ↑ https://thehill.com/homenews/media/413103-fox-business-networks-dobbs-calls-bomb-attacks-fake-bombs-in-since-deleted
  15. ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/25/media/lou-dobbs-fake-bombs/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Dobbs, Lou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobbs, Louis Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Childress , Texas