The TIME 100 — Are They Worthy?

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LOU DOBBS

Lou Dobbs

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AGE: 61
OCCUPATION: Anchor and Managing Editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, radio host, columnist
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Winner of a Lifetime Achievement Emmy award, staunch opponent of illegal immigration whose "Broken Borders" segment focuses on the problems of drugs and illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

CON: Despite drawing one of CNN's largest audiences (800,000), Dobbs' reach is paltry compared to that of network news: about nine million watch NBC's Nightly News.

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