ALIPAC files formal complaint over article bias in Chicago Tribune!
Posted on Wednesday, February 20 @ 10:59:29 EST
Topic: Lou Dobbs CNN Anchor
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 February 20, 2008
To: The editors and ombudsmen of the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun.
I wish to file a formal complaint and request a full retraction of the
propaganda hit piece that was conducted by your papers and your
employee Whitney Blair Wyckoff, on February 19, 2008, titled "Lou Dobbs
for president? One anti-illegal immigration group thinks he's the
antidote to 'McClintobama'."
I witness so much bias, politicization, censorship, and corruption of
journalistic ethics in the American print media on a daily that I am
rarely astounded anymore. This "article" by Ms Wycoff stands as a
perfect example of what is wrong with America today. Americans used to
trust newspapers to provide them with accurate information and
portrayals of the candidates and issues that have a direct impact on
the quality of their lives.
It is no surprise that newspaper circulations are taking a dive and
that polls show only small fractions of our citizenry place any trust
in the print media. This "article" is a perfect example.
The topic of Whitney Blair Wyckoff's article is Lou Dobbs and our
website to promote a possible Presidential campaign by Mr. Dobbs. Yet,
Mr. Dobbs is not quoted as a source and while our home site at
ALIPAC.us or our Draft Dobbs for President site are main features in
the article, no links are provided thus allowing Wycoff to define the
sites without showing readers where they could go to participate or
formulate their own opinions.
Wycoff inserts her own opinions into the article several times. She
calls Lou Dobbs "cantankerous" in the first sentence, which is defined
as a person that is ill-tempered, quarrelsome; disagreeable: disliked.
While this is her opinion and an insult, but it is also a lie because
Mr. Dobbs is quite a gentleman and well liked by Americans, which is
illustrated by his rapidly growing audience.
Wycoff further injects her personal opinions into the article by
calling the immigration plans of the wealthiest candidates "moderate",
when in fact their plans would be the most radical change in America's
immigration laws in modern history!
Wycoff misrepresents my statements and quotes to her, in dramatic
fashion. She claims that I made statements about the anti-immigrant
vote. I never used the term "anti-immigrant", as my organization ALIPAC
supports legal immigrants and we are pro-immigrant. We have many
immigrant supporters, in which we greatly value and thus the name
Americans for Legal Immigration! Wycoff wants readers to think that Lou
Dobbs and I are both "anti-immigrant", which is false and again shows a
political opinion inserted into this article.
Furthermore, Wycoff completely misquoted me as saying, I think
people should run America. How stupid is that? What would the
alternative be? Perhaps America should be run by robots? No, she
distorted my true quote, which is "It's about whether the citizens of
America or big business run the United States" but Wycoff claims I said
something very different.
The worst of the bias in this article is the fact that only one
other source was used and that the writer fails to properly identify
Alan I. Abramowitz.
Not only does Wycoff allow Alan I. Abramowitz to make several false
and negative statements, but she fails to inform readers that Mr.
Abramowitz is a member of the ASK Law Group, which specializes in
"Immigration and Naturalization law", according to their website at kaflaw (dot) com
The readers of Wycoff's article deserve to know that the source is not
an unbiased academic Political Science professor, but in fact he is
making money from legal and illegal immigration. Do you think that the
fact his income is affected by this issue might have an impact on his
opinion of Mr. Dobbs running for President? Most people would think so
and that is why this information is excluded.
This is not an article, this is a biased piece of trash that
deserves to be thrown in the trash and Ms. Wycoff needs to return to
college for some refresher courses on the ethics of journalism.
American citizens deserve better than this kind of political propaganda that is masquerading as news or journalism.
I have added notes and corrections to this article, before I
circulate it to the national media and our 25,000 national supporters.
You can see our revisions at this link...
Biased Tribune article attacks ALIPAC and the Draft Dobbs effort!
http://www.alipac.us/article2972.html
ALIPAC deserves justice. A full correction or retraction is needed
and Ms. Wycoff should be appropriately disciplined by your company.
In closing, one of the most attractive things about Lou Dobbs is
that he tells people the truth about what is going on and makes his
opinions clear, which is a refreshing reprieve from articles like this
one that infect the corporate liberal media in America.
William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
www.alipac.us
DISCUSS THIS LETTER WITH ALIPAC ACTIVISTS AT THIS LINK...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-628782.html#628782
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