Information AboutLou Dobbs |
Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945 ), is the CNN Anchor and managing Editor for '' Lou Dobbs Tonight ''. He is also an editorial columnist and Syndicated radio show host. ''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' attracts CNN's second-largest audience after '' Larry King Live '', with about 800,000 viewers per night. Dobbs also lectures widely.1 EARLY LIFE Dobbs was born in Childress, Texas , the son of a co-owner of a Propane business and a bookkeeper. When Dobbs was 12, his father's propane business failed and the family moved to Rupert, Idaho . He attended Minico High School in Minidoka County , serving as student body president in 1963.2 He earned a degree in Economics from Harvard University , graduating in 1967. After graduating, Dobbs worked for federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. and as a cash-management specialist for Union Bank in Los Angeles . He married his high school sweetheart in 1969 and in 1970 his first son was born. Dobbs moved to Yuma, Arizona and got a job as a police and fire reporter for KBLU-AM . By the mid-1970s he was a television anchor and reporter in Phoenix , and he later joined Seattle 's KING-TV . In 1979, he was contacted by a recruiter for Ted Turner , who was in the process of forming CNN. CAREER CNN Dobbs joined CNN when it launched in 1980, serving as its chief Economics Correspondent and as host of the business news program '' Moneyline '' on CNN. Dobbs also served as a corporate executive for CNN, as its executive vice president and as a member of CNN's executive committee. He also founded CNN Fn (CNN financial news), serving as its president and anchoring the program ''Business Unusual'', which examined business creativity and leadership. {Link without Title} Departure and founding of Space.com Dobbs repeatedly clashed with Rick Kaplan , who became U.S. president of CNN in 1997. Dobbs said Kaplan was "clearly partisan" and "was pushing Clinton stories," while Kaplan said Dobbs was "a very difficult person to deal with." In May 1999, CNN was covering a speech by President Clinton in Littleton, Colorado , following the Columbine High School Massacre . Dobbs ordered the producer to cut away from the speech and return to broadcast ''Moneyline'', feeling it was a staged event and not newsworthy. Dobbs was countermanded by Kaplan, who ordered CNN to return to the speech. Kaplan later said, "Tell me what journalistic reason there was not to cover the President at Columbine soon after the shootings? Everyone else was doing it." Dobbs announced on the air that "CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton." A few days later, Dobbs announced that he was leaving the network to start Space.com , a website devoted to astronomical news. Dobbs was subsequently replaced as host of ''Moneyline'' by Willow Bay and Stuart Varney . {Link without Title} Return to CNN Kaplan left CNN in August 2000, and Dobbs returned the following year at the behest of his friend and CNN founder Ted Turner , becoming host and managing editor of the new and initially more general news program ''Lou Dobbs Reporting'', which later became ''CNN News Sunday Morning''. He also regained the helm of the newly renamed ''Lou Dobbs Moneyline'' (which became ''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' in June 2003).3 Dobbs also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Lou Dobbs Financial Report'', and he is a regular columnist in '' Money '' magazine, '' U.S. News & World Report '' and the '' New York Daily News ''. Radio Dobbs currently hosts the ''Lou Dobbs Minute'' on United Stations Radio Networks . He auditioned for the slot vacated by '' Imus In The Morning '' on WFAN on May 14 and May 15 2007 . POLITICAL VIEWS |
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