Thread: Report: Lou Dobbs Left CNN for $8 Million Good Reasons

Report: Lou Dobbs Left CNN for $8 Million Good Reasons\

Posted Monday 16 November 04:27 PM By: Dino Sossi

CNN wanted veteran newscaster out so badly, they gave him an $8 million settlement package, reports The New York Post.

"They wanted him out," revealed a source. Dobbs shocked fans by announcing he was quitting his show 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' last Wednesday. Another source claimed he had 18 months left on a $12 million contract.

Tension had been building between Dobbs and CNN executive producer Jonathan Klein over the subject matter reported during Dobbs's show - that President Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii and therefore not an American citizen as well as illegal immigration. "What they do is their business," Dobbs stated yesterday regarding CNN. "I tried to accommodate them as best I could, but I've said for many years now that neutrality is not part of my being."

Klein held a strong belief that Dobbs' increasingly opinionated reporting ran counter to CNN's stated goal of becoming a fact-based, opinion-free network nestled between the right-leaning FOX News and left-leaning MSNBC.

However, the extent to which CNN was willing to pay Dobbs such a significant severance had been hidden. This stands in significant contrast to the way Dobbs expressed the professional dissolution of his 27-year association with CNN which he characterized as "pleasant, friendly and professional" to the Atlanta Constitution-Journal.

The $8 million package has given Dobbs a sense of freedom. "I truly believe that it's also a liberating moment for me," claimed Dobbs, who is in no rush to work on another network. Dobbs said that it would be "weeks, probably months" before he decides what to do next.

Speculation that Dobbs may become a candidate for the Senate seat in New Jersey in 2012 rings false to insiders. "He couldn't stand the scrutiny," mentioned a colleague.

http://www.popeater.com/2009/11/16/repo ... d-reasons/

CNN wanted veteran newscaster out so badly, they gave him an $8 million settlement package, reports The New York Post.

Another reason to FIRE JON KLEIN!

On his appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show this evening, Dobbs again stated that he had not been pressured by CNN's management in any way to resign. He did affirm that J. Klein had stated earlier that he wanted to "take the network in a different direction" confined to objective news, with which he had tried to comply. Dobbs said that the public climate surrounding his criticisms of government policiies had changed with the change of administrations, although he felt his criticisms of the illegal immigration and financial policies of both had remained essentially the same. He said that the barrage of "hate" telephone calls to his home culminating in a shot being fired at his house had begun only since Obama came to office. I got the feeling that he felt he had to resign to protect himself and his family. Unfortunately, O'Reilly kept interrupting him - Dobbs is a really intelligent and well-informed man, and it's a pleasure to listen to him speak.