Congressional Hispanic Caucus Takes on Sweet Lou Dobbs and CNN!

Last week, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus challenged the Democratic leadership on immigration.  The Caucus continues to be in the news on immigration.  The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is taking on CNN. In a letter issued Friday to Time Warner Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, the CHC’s chairman, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.), and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) contended that the news network is skewed in favor of anti-immigration efforts.CHC leaders expressed outrage that their appeals for a meeting with Bewkes have been rebuffed for several months

Roll Call reports that, according to Senator Menendez, many of CNN’s news programs have adopted “the language Lou Dobbs uses,” referring to the host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” who uses the platform to complain about illegal immigration. “The news program has become the equivalent of opinion and not information,” Menendez said, asserting that news anchors opt for language describing “hordes” of immigrants crossing borders, and use phrases such as “illegal” rather than “undocumented” when describing such immigrants.

KJ