CNN's Kurtz, CNN president at odds over whether Dobbs is in "straight newscast" business

SUMMARY: On CNN's Reliable Sources, host and media critic Howard Kurtz said that he doesn't "think there's any question that [CNN host Lou] Dobbs is in the opinion business." Yet the Associated Press reported in an August 1 article that Kurtz's boss, CNN President Jonathan Klein, said, in the AP's words, that "Dobbs has been doing a relatively straight newscast," and quoted Klein stating that Dobbs "brings more than three decades of experience reporting and broadcasting the news."

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