Born in Rupert, Idaho. Attended Harvard University.
Career began at CNN and later moved to Fox Business Network.
Gained recognition for covering significant events like the stock market crash of 1987 and earned prestigious awards like the Peabody Award and an Emmy Award.
Known for vocal support of conservative politics and Donald Trump during his presidency.
Lou Dobbs, renowned journalist and conservative commentator, passed away at age 78 on July 18, 2024.
Show on Fox Business Network was canceled in February 2021 after being named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic over on-air comments regarding the 2020 election. Dobbs denied allegations and engaged in opinion commentary.
Survived by wife Debi and four children.
Lou Dobbs, a renowned journalist and conservative commentator, passed away at the age of 78 on July 18, 2024. His death was confirmed by former President Trump through social media posts.
Born in Rupert, Idaho, Dobbs attended Harvard University before embarking on his journalism career. He began his broadcasting journey at CNN and later moved to Fox Business Network after leaving CNN in 2009.
Throughout his career, Dobbs gained recognition for covering significant events such as the stock market crash of 1987 and earned prestigious awards like the Peabody Award and an Emmy Award. However, he became known for his vocal support of conservative politics and Donald Trump during the latter's presidency.
Dobbs' show on Fox Business Network was canceled in February 2021 after he was named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic over his on-air comments regarding the 2020 election. Dobbs denied the allegations and engaged in opinion commentary on issues of public interest.
Dobbs is survived by his wife Debi and four children. His legacy will live on as a patriot and a great American, leaving behind an indelible mark on the world of journalism.
Dobbs became one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, using his program to promote anti-immigrant rhetoric and lash out at the ‘deep state.’
Trump regularly praised Dobbs as a friend and ‘truly incredible journalist, reporter, and talent.’
After the 2020 election, Dobbs used his Fox Business program to repeatedly promote false conspiracy theories that the vote had been rigged.
Fox Business canceled Dobbs’ show in February 2021 after he was personally named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic over his on-air comments.
Dobbs denied the allegations of a disinformation campaign and engaged in opinion commentary on issues of public interest.
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The article makes multiple editorializing statements about Lou Dobbs' career and his relationship with Donald Trump. It also includes sensationalist language such as 'veteran anchor who became one of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters in media', 'spent the latter part of his career promoting streams of misinformation and conspiracy theories on behalf of the then-president', and 'used his program to repeatedly promote false conspiracy theories that the vote had been rigged by shadowy companies'. These statements are not factual but rather an opinionated interpretation of events.
The veteran anchor spent the latter part of his career promoting streams of misinformation and conspiracy theories on behalf of the then-president.
These on-air comments helped spur voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic to sue Fox News for defamation.
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The author makes several appeals to authority by mentioning Trump's praise of Dobbs and quoting Trump's statements. The author also uses inflammatory rhetoric by describing Dobbs as 'one of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters in media,' 'promoting streams of misinformation and conspiracy theories on behalf of the then-president,' and 'using his program to promote anti-immigrant rhetoric and lash out at the so-called “deep state.”' The author also mentions lawsuits against Dobbs for defamation, but does not provide any context or evidence to support these claims.
][The author] As one of Trump’s biggest boosters on television, the veteran anchor spent the latter part of his career promoting streams of misinformation and conspiracy theories on behalf of the then-president.[/]
[The author] These on-air comments helped spur voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic to sue Fox News for defamation. [
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The author, Oliver Darcy, repeatedly refers to Lou Dobbs as 'one of Trump's most vocal supporters', 'Trump's biggest boosters on television', and 'promoting streams of misinformation and conspiracy theories on behalf of the then-president'. These statements demonstrate a clear political bias against Lou Dobbs.
As one of Trump’s biggest boosters on television
Dobbs used his Fox Business program to repeatedly promote false conspiracy theories that the vote had been rigged by shadowy companies that flipped millions of votes from Trump to Joe Biden
Lou Dobbs, the longtime business news anchor who became one of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters in media
He left CNN in 2009 to help launch Fox Business Network.
He was born in Texas but grew up in Rupert, Idaho. He attended Harvard University and worked summers in the Idaho potato fields before finding his way into journalism.
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The article mentions Dobbs' political evolution towards an embrace of populism and his deep skepticism of immigration, which puts him at odds with mainstream journalists and earned him widespread criticism. The author also states that Dobbs became a supporter of former President Donald Trump and repeated Trump's statement about Dobbs passing away on social media. These statements demonstrate a right-leaning political bias.
Dobbs left CNN in 1999 to found Space.com, only to return in 2001 to host what would become “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” He left again in 2009 when he began to embrace the unfounded theory that Barack Obama had not been born in the U.S. and was not an American citizen.
Dobbs refused to abandon the false contention that the machines contributed to what he called a fraudulent election outcome, at one point calling the presidential vote a “cyber Pearl Harbor.”
The author states that Dobbs became a supporter of former President Donald Trump, who appeared to be the first person to tell the world that he had died.
