The Dobbs Effect

Calling him "the nation's most prominent opponent of current immigration policy," The New York Times' Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg look at CNN host Lou Dobbs and his impact on the immigration debate, not to mention what it says about cable news:

In the course of insistently offering his ever more passionate views on immigration all across the television landscape in just one 24-hour period, Mr. Dobbs underscored that what works in cable television news is not an objective analysis of the day's events but hard-nosed, unstinting advocacy of a specific point of view on a sizzling-hot topic.