National Television Academy Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting Luncheon - December 1, 2005. Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award to Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs has been a permanent aspect of our household for as long as he has been broadcasting. My wife Nancy is a fan and she brought him into my life. She insisted that I listen to his broadcasts because Lou, she said, was invariably polite, always well-prepared and not following fashionable trends. As usual, she proved perceptive. I have joined her fan club.

Economics is not my strongest subject. When I first started watching Lou, he was covering business news in the main. I found it helpful that Lou presented economic and related issues in a manner that broadened my perspective and deepened my knowledge. Since then - but for a few years of sabbatical - Lou has been a staple of my television viewing. Since those early days, he has broadened his reporting into the political field, displaying the same virtues that characterized his business broadcasts.

I have been invited on several occasions to be his guest on the show. I like to see Lou at work. He is a perfectionist, using every major break for adjusting - until the last second - what is capable of modification. He also gives no quarter in his questioning. Though Lou never abandons his courteous manner, he does not carry it to the point of permitting his guest to avoid his question. If necessary, he can display a certain pugnacity in the pursuit of truth.

All these qualities have made Lou a preeminent broadcaster. I would add a perhaps more important quality - Lou's ability to dramatize an issue beyond its significance in the day-to-day news coverage. Lou has an extraordinary skill in emphasizing a problem over a period of time and thereby forcing it into public consciousness.

Lou's discussion of outsourcing is a case in point. Free trade advocates have strongly disputed some aspects of Lou's point of view. But the technical debate obscures two aspects of globalization that will invariably demand attention as time goes on. The shift of industrial production capacity to Asia will not only transform the location where goods and services are produced, it will intensify a process driven by competition. Some regions will win and others will lose - this is inherent in the process. In an age of increasing popular participations in public decisions, the declining region will attempt to modify this process - in other words, protect themselves. Thus globalization will be increasingly on the international agenda, whether or not one agrees with every detail of Lou's critique.

But that Lou's broadcasts can raise such considerations is a tribute to his impact. It is an honor to be able to participate in this manner in the program that awards the well-deserved Emmy for Lifetime Achievement for Business and Financial Reporting to Lou Dobbs.

Henry A. Kissinger

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Jody Williams

From: NewsEmmy [newsemy@emmyonline.tv]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:50 AM
To: Kissinger Office
Subject: Lou Dobbs Emmy Essay due 11/01

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Thanks once again for agreeing to write a short tribute essay on Lou Dobbs, the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting. As I mentioned in my email of October 25th, your essay will appear in the printed program to be distributed at the Business and Financial Emmy Awards ceremony, to be held on December 1 in New York City. We are delighted to have you as a contributor.

Just a reminder that our deadline for copy is tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1. Please email your essay to dwinn@emmyonline.tv. Also, please include a recent bio and color photo.

Guidelines for the essay were included in my previous email, but please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions at all.

11/4/2005

From: NewsEmmy [mailto:newsemy@emmyonline.tv]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:47 PM
To: Kissinger Office
Subject: Lou Dobbs Tribute essay

Below is a letter to Mr. Kissinger concerning an essay he has agreed to write on the occasion of the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Emmy award to Lou Dobbs. Mr. Dobbs office made the initial contact, and I am following up with the details. The following letter contains all the info Mr. Kissinger should need to write the essay, but please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or need anything at all. As I believe Mr Dobbs discussed with Mr. Kissinger, our deadline for copy is Tuesday 11/01. My contact info is listed below. Best Regards, David Winn.

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

Thanks very much for agreeing to help the National Television Academy pay tribute to Lou Dobbs, the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting. The award will be presented at the annual Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting Luncheon, to be held on December 1 at the Bloomberg headquarters in New York City.

We are delighted that you've agreed to write a short essay on Lou to be included in the printed program for this year's awards ceremony, which will be published as a special supplement in the November 28 issue of *Television Week*. Here's what we'd like: a brief tribute essay of about 5-600 words that tells readers why Lou is an important figure in the world of business news in particular, and broadcast journalism in general. We find that the essays that work best are those that are personalized in some way—that relate a personal anecdote or tell a story that captures something quintessential about the honoree. However, you should feel free to write whatever you feel most comfortable with, and whatever best expresses your feelings about Lou.

Please submit your copy by Tuesday, November 1. We prefer that you email your essay to David Winn at dwinn@emmyonline.tv. In addition, please include a bio and a color photo or headshot. If you do not have electronic copies of these, please mail them to:

Attn: David Winn
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
111 West 57th St. Suite 600
New York, NY 10019

Thanks very much for your contribution.

David Winn
Director, News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Office: 212-484-9424
dwinn@emmyonline.tv