By Michael McCarthy, USA TODAY, Updated 2/23/2005 3:24 AM
…”The ultimate message in outsourcing is this: America be damned.
It’s all about the lowest cost,” says the silver-haired, 59-year-old
newsman at his new Time Warner Center digs in Manhattan. “I can’t
accept that statement. Nor will I, whether it comes from a lawmaker, a
politician or a businessman or woman. The pain that’s being exacted on
our middle class from so many quarters is intolerable.”
In the brutally competitive world of 24-hour cable news channels, the
new in-your-face Dobbs is winning viewers. The Lou Dobbs Tonight
audience is up 4% for the first eight weeks of this season, ending
Friday, to 536,000 daily, according to Nielsen Media Research …
Dobbs says some CEOs have accused him of turning into Ralph Nader, but
“privately many CEOs say to me: ‘If everybody else would stop it, I’d
be delighted to end it. Until that happens we have to protect our
margin at the margin.’ That’s a shame.” …