Lou Dobbs Quotes
I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.
Lou Dobbs, TV Journalist, Interview, CBS 60 Minutes, May 6, 2007
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60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
Even as late as the 1970s most media organizations did not feel any inhibition about having a spokesperson for a political movement or candidate comment about statements that were clearly untrue. The constant political criticism of the media produced this change and no matter how absurd or false a political statement is, most media will have a spokesperson for the lie appear on the program to repeat the lie. Both political parties are thereby encouraged to exaggerate or even lie as they will never by exposed by trusted journalists and can reduce all falsehoods to a βhe says, she says.β
Many scholars believe that complete objectivity is impossible psychologically. Hence, neutrality is a better standard and goal some argue.
Louis Carl Dobbs is an American television commentator, author, radio show host, and the anchor of Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business Network.