Posts Tagged ‘Media’
“Build a wall” with “cheap labor”
5:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media · 2 Comments
18 Apr 2006
Hate has a variety of faces in today’s media; you’ve got your Lou Dobbs, your Michael Savage, and a personal fave, Bill O’Reilly. Bill’s not just about skewering liberals with his double speak and accusatory “interviews” — he also likes to stick his bigoted friends on the show as well. MediaMatters brings us a delightful little transcript of an exchange between O’Reilly and “conservative commentator” Ann Coulter:
O’REILLY: In the “Personal Story” segment tonight, conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter has some strong views on illegal immigration, and here she is. It’s a big mess, that’s for sure. Where do you stand on it as far as what would you like to see done?COULTER: I’d build a wall. In fact, I’d hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here.
O’REILLY: You would throw them out.
COULTER: I can’t even –
O’REILLY: You would throw them out.
COULTER: Yeah.
O’REILLY: So –
COULTER: Yes.
O’REILLY: The wall, I got — I mean, you’re being sarcastic with the illegal aliens. But the wall is –
COULTER: No. It’s cheap labor.
Can anyone remember a time when there was so much hate in the media? Cable news has done nothing but help feed this sort of thing. It’s pretty sad that when you sit down to watch a “news” channel, all you can get these days is a bunch of lamebrain hate-filled rhetoric and no real dialogue. Disgusting.
Read the whole piece and watch the video on the MediaMatters site.
Ann Coulter’s quotes on Wikiquote
Via / MediaMatters
Latina blogger on mainstream media
12:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs|TV · 5 Comments
12 Apr 2006
I was lucky enough to catch blogger Alisa Valdes Rodriguez’s appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 the other night. It’s so great to see bloggers participating in the debate over immigration within the context of mainstream media, which seems to be doing more to divide than unite. Alisa told it like it is with regard to the media’s portrayal of this issue:
…you’ve also got tens of thousands of undocumented Irish in Boston. You’ve got 100,000 Nigerians living in and around Houston. And my point is if this is truly an issue, if immigration is the issue — illegal immigration, you should show a variety of faces. Because the way that the American media are covering the issue right now, it’s becoming an anti-Latino story.I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen stories that equate Mexican, illegal, Latino, Hispanic, using those words interchangeably and also using them to mean Spanish speaking. Where in my state of New Mexico, which is a majority Hispanic state, only 14 percent of the people speak Spanish at all.
Immigration: More hate from the media
4:54 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media|radio|TV · 1 Comment
29 Mar 2006
Mainstream media’s obsession with immigration just seems to grow and grow. It’s not just Lou Dobbs anymore. One can’t watch cable news in primetime without being bombarded with ignorant punditry and hate-filled diatribes. Media Matters has a couple of particularly disturbing examples today, not from cable TV but from the internet and radio:
Michelle Malkin, the Filipino-American right wing pundit says:
Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).
Um, what? I’d come up with a stronger response to this statement if I thought it deserved more than just a quick “Are you smoking something?”
An Atlanta-area radio host thinks that all Latino immigrants need to be “stored” somewhere before ultimately deporting them all:
The United Nations and the Euro-weenies, who have their own immigration problem with their own “M” word; It’s Muslims for them. They will start screaming about human rights violations like you’ve never heard them screaming before. They are not going to be shipped back. I mean, Royal, think about — Mexico doesn’t want ‘em back, first of all. Think what happens if we round — first of all, where do we store 11 million Hispanics just waiting to ship ‘em back to Nicaragua, Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico. Where do we store ‘em?
Media Matters is urging the public to contact both of these commentators to voice their opposition to the views expressed.
Media Matters: Malkin quote
Media Matters: Boortz quote
Via / Media Matters
Limbaugh: Undocumented immigrants “unwilling to work”
1:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media|radio · 6 Comments
28 Mar 2006
It comes as no surprise to anyone that Rush Limbaugh is anti-immigrant. However, a recent quote has left me in tailspin. Apparently he believes that immigration to the United States is Mexican president Vicente Fox’s way of eliminating a criminal element in Mexico — by exportation. And if that weren’t enough (hold on to your horses) he says that the immigrants that come to the U.S. are “unwilling to work”.
LIMBAUGH: One of the puzzling things about this to me, since President Bush has been in office, is his — you know, he had a very close relationship with [Mexican President] Vicente Fox, and I don’t –
CALLER: Right.
LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I — I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what’s been happening. But look at it from Vicente Fox’s point of view. I mean if — if you had a — a — a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?
I guess that explains the endless lines of workers lined up in Home Depot parking lots in Atlanta or all those guys I see waiting outside of my local hardware store in San Francisco.
Whatever your politics, you have to be an idiot to think that immigrants entering this country illegally are here to do anything other than work. What good are they to their families unless they earn money to send back? Don’t you think the “criminal element” would just as soon stay in Mexico and be lazy than risk their lives crossing the border? Think about it.
Via / Media Matters
“Chocolate City” turning brown
6:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture|Immigration|Labor|States · Comments Off
8 Mar 2006
Remember “Fear of a Black Planet”? How about “Fear of a Brown New Orleans”? I’m not sure if it’s mainstream media’s antagonistic reporting that’s fueling public paranoia or vice-versa, but how many article like this can we read in a week? ABC News muses:
At a New Orleans construction site, the breakfast of choice is no longer coffee and beignets but coffee and tortillas.
Hurricane Katrina, as devastating as it was, has created great opportunities for many. After all, somebody has to tear down, clean up and rebuild this city. And by and large, the people doing the dirty, dangerous work are not native New Orleanians but Hispanics who have flocked in to fill the void left by hundreds of thousands who fled the storm.
Latino techno? You’re kidding!
1:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Media|Music|Newspapers · 4 Comments
28 Feb 2006
As evidence of the fact that mainstream media continues to see Latinos as retrograde, this snippet from a very “surprised” article about the Latino techno movement:
Electronic and Latin music would seem to reside at polar ends of the music spectrum. One is precise, the other passionate. One is the brutalist Bauhaus beats of Kraftwerk, the other is the languid romanticism of the Buena Vista Social Club.
Why Buena Vista Social Club? Why is that the quintessential “Latin music”?
GLAAD announces Spanish-language media award nominees
1:34 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Entertainment|GLBT|Media · 2 Comments
27 Jan 2006
GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) announced this week at Sundance its candidates for awards in excellence in fair and unbiased coverage of the LGBT community in Spanish language media. The awards cover all areas of media, including TV, film, traditional journalism and the internet. Some of the of the 45 nominees:
OUTSTANDING NOVELA
Los Sánchez (Azteca América)
Señora del Destino (Telemundo)
La Tormenta (Telemundo)
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular gay character)
“Los Colores del Arcoiris” Lo Que Callamos las Mujeres (Azteca América)
“Identidad Sexual” Mujer Casos de la Vida Real (Univision)
“La Reina de la Noche” Decisiones (Telemundo)
“La Soledad de Soledad” Lo Que Callamos las Mujeres (Azteca América)
“Todo sea por…” Decisiones (Telemundo)
Freddy Blames His Guayabera
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City|Newspapers|Politics · 1 Comment
7 Dec 2005
It’s been over a month since the New York City Mayoral election and I have one message for losing Democrat Freddy Ferrer and his camp: let it go. Roberto Ramirez, advisor to the once Bronx Borough President, said that a Sunday Times Magazine picture that showed Freddy wearing a guayabera and Mayor Michael Bloomberg wearing a suit, made Freddy look like a stereotype. According to a Village Voice article
A Ferrer aide explained that the candidate had gone to the Times photo shoot in a suit and changed into the guayabera afterward because he was heading to a parade. The photographer asked him for quick shots as he was leaving.
Luny Tunes Gets Play in New York Times
9:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Music|Newspapers · Comments Off
6 Dec 2005
You know you’ve officially crossed over when you’re in the Sunday New York Times. Ladies and gentlemen, reggaetón has crossed over. This past Sunday the New York Times dedicated an article to the reggaetón production team Luny Tunes and their success. And just in case anyone is really concerned about the integrity of the genre that brought us Gasolina, The Times quotes Luny Tunes as saying:
“Jessica Simpson’s father wants to work with us, too”…and that they are negotiating with Ms. [Jennifer] Lopez’s film company to produce the soundtrack for a film he says is “a sort of reggaetón 8 Mile.”
Via / The New York Times
Writers Watch Your Backs: “Those People” are after your jobs too!
9:10 am By Maegan La Mala · Newspapers · Comments Off
15 Nov 2005
Newspapers are less popular than ever. Some point to the rise of internet media as the cause. Some say the recent scandals of invented sources and outright lying have damaged the credibility of the daily print media. And yet as “minority” populations grow, especially Latino populations, many big city newspapers have launched papers aimed at this audience both in English and in other Languages. Just looking at New York City, the New York Daily News has two separate weeklies, one in English and one in Spanish aimed at the Big Apple’s Latinos.
And just as quickly as Spanish language papers are born, they are being killed. Insiders will cite low advertising rates and a lack of real commitment to people of color communities. A recent East Bay Express article points the finger south of the U.S. border, at outsourcing.
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