info@wecanstopthehate.org

Dear XXXXX:

Thank you for everything you have done to ensure that the Drop Dobbs campaign was a success! Lou Dobbs's resignation from CNN is an important step forward in restoring greater fairness, accuracy, and balance on CNN and cable news. It came after thousands of people and organizations pressured CNN to end Dobbs's biased coverage of our community and the immigration debate. For years, NCLR has raised concerns with CNN about the gross distortions, misrepresentations, and falsehoods that Dobbs's program has perpetuated in describing the impact of immigrants on American society. I partnered with CNN to address the levels of diversity before and behind the camera, in hopes of effecting real change at the network. I even appeared on Dobbs's show to ask him to curtail his bias and distance himself from the vigilantes and nativists he featured. But most recently, realizing that we needed to take a more visible role, we joined the Drop Dobbs campaign and began to educate advertisers about the impact his rhetoric has had on the Latino community.

As someone who has gone head to head with Dobbs, I must say that although this has never been personal, this is an important substantive matter to the entire Latino community and we welcome Dobbs's departure from CNN. We hope that his resignation will begin to undo the climate of intolerance fostered on his show, restore journalistic integrity to the CNN brand, and bring civility and truth back to the immigration debate. Yet there remain others who still give voice to extreme and polarizing rhetoric on cable network news and talk radio, so our campaign to take hate out of the immigration debate will continue. We look forward to continuing to work in partnership with you—with your passion, your vision, and your support. Let us not think this is the end, for it is not. Let us celebrate our victory, but let us be clear, there is still much left for us to do. Thank you again for everything that you have done and will continue to do.

Sincerely,

Janet MurguĂ*a
President and CEO