WASHINGTON - August 19 - In an interview taped yesterday for PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, Lou Dobbs, one of the most respected names in financial news reporting, emerges as a surprisingly strident critic of big business, whose power in Washington, he claims, is unparalleled. The pro-business Dobbs excoriates corporations for shipping jobs overseas. "Corporate America will not tell us how many jobs they're shipping overseas to cheap foreign labor markets," Dobbs tells Bill Moyers. "We're talking about not an economic judgment but a political judgment, a social judgment....What kind of country do we want? Do we want to destroy the middle class? Because if we do let's continue outsourcing jobs."

Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and a founding member of the network in 1980, as well as CNN's financial news division. His latest book is Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas. In addition, Dobbs anchors a nationally-syndicated financial news radio report. He writes a monthly column for Money magazine, a weekly syndicated column published in newspapers across the country, is a contributing editor for U.S. News and World Report.

The full interview with Dobbs airs on NOW with Bill Moyers on Friday, August 20, at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

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