Eye Openers + Media Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 19, 2009
Ironically, Latinos should be greatful to former CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs – commentary by Albor Ruiz
When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues – It was chaos this week in the LA Weekly’s virtual mailroom, which received a deluge of reactionary attitude in regard to Christine Pelisek’s cover story “Chaos in the Casitas: Lawless, south of the border–style speakeasies get a grip on L.A.”
November 18, 2009
CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave
Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government’s Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, VOA officials say.
November 12, 2009
Lou Dobbs Delivers His Head to Hispanics, But That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing – (interesting)
November 10, 2009
Entravision Communications reports its revenues are down 17%
November 5, 2009
Geraldo Rivera faces tough critics – a pair of abuelitas
November 4, 2009
Reid Gets No GOP Support For Resolution Honoring Hispanic Media
October 30, 2009
Questions Surrounding Dobbs’ Gunfire Incident Cast Doubt on CNN’s Credibility
Did a resolution honoring Hispanic media trigger a silent boycott among the GOP?
October 26, 2009
U.S. Census Allots $145 Million to Reach Out to Minorities – about $28 million to Hispanic media
October 17, 2009
“Latinos in America”: CNN’s Lame bid for hispanic audience?
October 15, 2009
Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos’ political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for the insurance industry group America’s Health Insurance Plan’s (AHIP) new ad blitz attacking Democratic health reform plans.
CNN To Disclose Alex Castellanos’s Health Care Industry Ties – (Republican political media consultant)
El Diario-La Prensa endorses Bill Thompson for Mayor of New York City – largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the NYC area
October 14, 2009
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) still needs to raise $225,000 before the end of the year or cease operations and stop all programs for the rest of the year
September 24, 2009
Lou Dobbs Confronts Latino Activists Seeking to Dislodge Him from CNN including Roberto Lovato
September 22, 2009
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho seeks protection for new threats
September 21, 2009
The future of freedom of speech in Latin America is being subjected to the “harassment” of policies designed “to put limits on it that are being repeated around the region,” Gonzalo Marroquin, vice president of the Inter-American Press Association, said at the conclusion of a forum held in Caracas.
September 18, 2009
Former presidents from Peru and Bolivia joined newspaper editors from across the Americas on Friday in condemning what they call a series of attempts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and some of his allies, to clamp down on the news media.
September 2, 2009
Lou Dobbs To Headline Anti-immigrant Fandango on Mexican Independence Day… Que viva la raza…!!
August 25, 2009
9 men in tuxedos charged in Boston beating death of Jose Alicea
August 24, 2009
A radio station that went off the air a year ago is back providing news and information to the Valley’s huge Spanish-speaking population – KNUV-AM (1190) – Arizona
August 21, 2009
Report: 52 Mexican reporters killed in last decade
August 18, 2009
Advertisers Ditching Black Media for Hispanic Outlets
August 14, 2009
Report: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez aggressively seizing control of media
August 7, 2009
ISA TKM TAKES MTV TR3S TO ITS HIGHEST RATINGS EVER
August 3, 2009
Venezuelan regulators revoked the broadcast rights of 34 radio stations on Friday, deepening a rift between President Hugo Chavez’s government and the private media.
July 31, 2009
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) needs your help – cuts in funding have left NAHJ with a $300,000 budget shortfall
July 16, 2009
Hispanic pride in Sotomayor but TVs set to soap opera – Upper Fells Point customers take a pass on Senate hearings – Maryland
The hosts of the popular KLBJ weekday show “The Todd and Don Show” have been yanked off the air for the next two weeks after a backlash to racial comments made about illegal immigrants during a show earlier this week. – Austin
July 1, 2009
Honduras new government is censoring journalists
June 29, 2009
Puerto Rico’s latest media venture, The Daily Sun, is a nonprofit employee cooperative whose editor says it could be an answer to failing newspapers.
June 10, 2009
AlterNet Takes on Shock Jock Michael Savage and Gets Threatened With a Lawsuit – When we helped publicize the link between bilious talk show host Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink, we got a letter from their lawyers.
June 4, 2009
Political cartoon portraying Sotomayor as a piñata is insensitive but deserves no rash judgements
June 3, 2009
Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper, the News, based in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company, and dozens of staffers were laid off over the weekend
June 2, 2009
Pat Buchanan: “Sotomayor is a quota queen” who believes “equal justice takes a back seat to tribal justice”
May 29, 2009
Mexico’s top prosecutor on Thursday offered a $380,000 reward for information in the kidnapping and murder of a newspaper reporter who was found beaten and dead in an irrigation canal in northern Mexico this week.
March 31, 2009
Reporting on the ‘Silent Middle’ in Immigration Coverage
March 30, 2009
Univision’s Fourth-Quarter, Full-Year Losses Expand in 2008 – Spanish-Language Media Company Copes With Falling Ad Revenue, Massive Debt Load
March 19, 2009
Latino Radio Show Stirs Concern Over Views on Jews
March 17, 2009
Hispanic Media in Central California Fight to Survive
March 16, 2009
Unreliable CIS Data Is Out-of-Date and Context Restrictionist Group Analysis Long on Fear, Short on Solutions
Lou Dobbs’ Latest Anti-Hispanic Rant
February 1, 2009
Hispanic Households among the Most Likely to Not be Ready for DTV Switch
A Mexican journalist seeking asylum in the United States after a series of stories about alleged Mexican military abuses of civilians has been released from an immigration jail after 7 months’ detention. Emilio Gutierrez Soto, had been jailed since June 2008, when he and his 15-year-old son crossed the U.S. border
January 28, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into payola allegations at some of the Rio Grande Valley’s most popular Spanish-language radio stations.
January 26, 2009
Jessica Alba: Bill O’Reilly An “A-Hole”
Casa y Hogar Halts Publication to Search for New Financing – Sole Spanish-Language Shelter Mag Will Continue Online Presence While Restructuring Business Model
January 25, 2009
Explosion of T.V. in English for Latinos
January 23, 2009
Did the New Yorker rip off a drawing done last year by Lalo Alcaraz, iconic Chicano cartoonist and author of the syndicated comic La Cucaracha (click through to see)
December 22, 2008
Department of Homeland Security ads on NPR raise ire – NPR’s Ombudsman Alicia Shepard said she received more than 60 letters in response to the spots – a considerable sum on a single topic – primarily in protest
December 19, 2008
Sources Say Fernando Del Rincon Fired From Univision
December 18, 2008
Why Hispanic Media Ignores College Soccer
December 16, 2008
I just noticed that the Spanish-Language newspaper Hoy’s website finally changed over to ViveloHoy.com and has dropped HispanicTips’ content
December 15, 2008
Mexican Playboy Magazine Apologizes for Nude Virgin Mary Cover
December 12, 2008
Playboy publica fotos que representan a la Virgen semi-desnuda
El crecimiento de CNN como una cadena internacional de noticias se inspiró en los intereses informativos de un declarado enemigo del capitalismo moderno: Fidel Castro.
December 6, 2008
Hispanics in TV News: El Paso Lacking Hispanic Presence on its TV Newscasts
December 5, 2008
The weekly Spanish-language newspaper Hoy, which means today, has ceased publication with its final issue being published this week. The paper was a product of Landmark Communications, based in Shelbyville, and was one of 19 Landmark publications in Kentucky.
December 2, 2008
Telemundo Puts Fate of TV Character in Hands of Sprint Subscribers – Mobile Users Will Be First to View and Vote on Three Different Paths ‘Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso’ Protagonist Can Take
November 25, 2008
KFSN Fresno GM Bob Hall Resigns After Court Comments About Hispanics – Made off-hand comment about Hispanics while under consideration for jury duty.
November 19, 2008
Jorge Mettey, former news director and vice president of news at Univision KMEX-TV 34 in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit Monday against his former employer, claiming he was wrongfully terminated after allegedly being pressured to cover news sponsored by advertisers.
October 29, 2008
Yesterday the Obama Campaign announced that they have purchased 30 minutes of airtime on the Spanish Language network, Univision on Wednesday at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time and 7:00pm Central and Mountain time. Tune in to see Senator Obama’s message to the American people.
October 20, 2008
Another Front in the Conflict: Colombian Government’s Propaganda vs. Indigenous Media Perspectives
October 2, 2008
The United States has reversed itself and decided to allow two journalists for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina to return to their posts at the United Nations, the State Department said Wednesday.
The Presidential debate last Friday drew only 3.46 million Hispanic watchers
September 26, 2008
What is it?!? Spanish language viewers don’t care? OR Univision takes them for granted!?!
September 23, 2008
Vicious bat attack leaves radio host blind in one eye – Dominican Pelagio de la Cruz – (video included)
September 17, 2008
CLEAR CHANNEL REVISITED AFTER A YEAR OF REFUSING TO MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY- UNREPENTANT MICHAEL SAVAGE CONTINUES TO SPEW HATE! 2nd ANNUAL PROTEST – ANTI-HATE SPEECH & DISINFORMATION DEMONSTRATION! – San Francisco
September 15, 2008
Maria Elena Salinas: Obama refocuses on issues – “I want to share some highlights of my interview with Obama – the first interview given to a Spanish-language media organization since becoming his party’s nominee”
September 10, 2008
Mexican journalist languishes in Texas detention – Emilio Gutiérrez Soto
September 5, 2008
El Nuevo Día Orlando publishes final edition
August 26, 2008
Ray Chavez, an Oakland Tribune photographer and this year’s recipient of the NAHJ’s Photographer of the Year award, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Oakland on Friday.
August 20, 2008
Don Flores, who has been an executive and the top editor at the El Paso Times, has resigned. Flores’ departure ended a 15-year turn as top newsman at the paper, the largest and arguably most influential news outlet in the community.
Telemundo Hauls In 12 Million Olympics Viewers – The audience total surpasses that for the entire run of coverage for the 2004 Summer Olympic games on Telemundo
August 14, 2008
Five years after arriving in Central Florida, El Nuevo Día Orlando, the region’s only daily Spanish-language newspaper, is closing.
NBC Coverage of Olympics leaves Puerto Ricans wanting
Spanish Radio Rocks the Vote – Pasco, Washington – (interesting 1st line: “The higher the Hispanic population, the lower the voter turnout, according to statistics from the Washington Secretary of State’s office.”)
August 5, 2008
Four Spanish publications are now available for London’s booming Latin American community. – Canada
July 28, 2008
The real story is decades of inadequate response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. health system to HIV-AIDS in the Hispanic community; that has allowed almost 100,000 Hispanics to die and new cases to continue to appear.
July 24, 2008
Just a couple of months after WCBS/Ch. 2 correspondent Pablo Guzman cheated death in a car crash, he’s now recovering from a heart attack. – New York City
Larry Mendte, Alycia Lane (Latina) Co-Anchor, Charged With Hacking Into Lane’s Computer
July 23, 2008
The only news/talk-radio station in the Valley (Arizona) aimed at Latino immigrants is going off the air, the victim of a faltering economy, ongoing crackdowns on undocumented immigrants and a tough market for Spanish talk radio. – Its sister station in Denver, KNRV-AM (1150), signs off this month, too.
Journalists Of Color To Gather At UNITY – Chicago
Intersections: (Media) Revise your styleguide: On usage of ‘La Raza’
July 21, 2008
Magazine cover may help Obama with Latino voters
July 15, 2008
What is the Venezuelan News Media Actually Like? – 21 Caracas Daily Newspapers, Diverse Community Radio and TV Stations, Disprove the US-Propagated Myths
July 14, 2008
Media Matters – Ignoring own reporting, AP claimed McCain “is respected by many Hispanics for refusing to pander to anti-immigrant sentiment”
June 30, 2008
Henry Cisneros meets the cartoonists
Jose de la Isla: PBS still lacking in attention to Hispanics
June 26, 2008
Miami’s El Nuevo Herald states McCain is the favored candidate by Hispanic voters. Huh? (Latina Lista)
June 19, 2008
City Hall to speak Spanish on TV – Winston-Salem, North Carolina
June 17, 2008
Obama and McCain on Immigration: Life vs. Death – The best analysis of the differences in the candidates’ positions comes from the Spanish-language press.
Tu Ciudad magazine closure
June 12, 2008
Cartoonists Go to War – (Political cartoonists in Nicaragua)
June 11, 2008
Media Moves: Equity cancels Spanish-language news in 6 markets – Oklahoma City, Naples-Ft. Myers, Fla.; Detroit; Amarillo, Tx.; Salt Lake City and Fort Smith-Fayetteville, Ark
June 9, 2008
The Hispanic Institute Proposes CNN Boycott – Cites Lou Dobbs’ Anti-Immigration Crusade
May 27, 2008
Right-Wing Media Using Immigration Debate to Mainstream Hate – By poisoning the public discourse with disinformation, right-wing talkers improve their ratings while leaving us far from fixing a broken system.
May 22, 2008
Univision Outdelivers ABC, NBC, CBS, or FOX Nearly Every Night During May Sweep – In Key Markets, Univision #1 in Primetime, Outperforming “American Idol,” “Dancing with the Stars,” and “Grey’s Anatomy”
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) Goes Public against PPM
May 20, 2008
‘Nightly News’ Calls Cuban Defections a ‘Setback’ – Segment about Cuban circus romanticizes life under authoritarian socialist rule.
May 14, 2008
‘NY Times’ Duped by Chilean Security Guard
April 24, 2008
ESPN Radio’s return cuts Spanish format – Fayetteville, North Carolina
Rebecca Aguilar is fighting back – Dallas reporter
April 22, 2008
Media makes citizenship status of Hispanic surname suspects part of the story (Latina Lista)
April 16, 2008
Copper theft knocks Entravision radio station off air in Central Florida
April 10, 2008
Guess what media focus is on with Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration? The big picture? Nah.
April 9, 2008
Grand Island Spanish Newspaper Publisher Pulls Illegal Advertisements – Nebraska
April 7, 2008
New media trends turn to Spanish language
April 1, 2008
McClatchy to Boost Spanish Content – in deal with ImpreMedia
March 24, 2008
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Drops ‘San Jose Mercury News’ From Diversity Program
March 9, 2008
MATCH-ISMO TV – American Latinos battle Mexican counterparts for national pride — and a few bucks.
February 26, 2008
Geraldo Rivera Writes About the Growth of Hispanics in America – “His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.”
February 25, 2008
Mayor’s former girlfriend returns to L.A. media as radio co-host
February 11, 2008
Media Hype and Immigration Questions for the Candidates
February 6, 2008
Cartoonists to Protest Lack of Color in the Comics
Memo to media on immigration coverage – Janet Murguia
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Slurs Latinos With ‘Guacamole’
February 5, 2008
Media Matters – Fox News’ Hill: Are Latinos “going to vote for the person who basically is going to give them the most for … the least?”
February 4, 2008
Small Border Newspaper Catches Department of Homeland Security in a Big Lie (Latina Lista)
The Arbiter Speaks Spanish – Boise State student newspaper
January 31, 2008
Scout.com: On The Ground: Is This Over The Top?No one trots out the hot chicks with microphones quite like the Hispanic TV stations. TV Azteca is at the forefront, using several lovely young women to ask questions during Media Day for the Super Bowl
January 30, 2008
The Hispanic Center publishes Pittsburgh’s first Spanish Services Directory
January 22, 2008
Loss of news talk show dismays Mexicans – Supporters of journalist Carmen Aristegui say the cancellation of her radio program poses a threat to the country’s move toward greater democracy.
January 17, 2008
Man Eegee – The Media Relishes in Minority Tension
Ethnic Media Presses on in Katrina Aftermath
January 15, 2008
Infoshop News – Review: La Barrikada – Spanish language journal created from the love, rage, and desire of living alongside the barricades of Oaxaca, Mexico during the summer and fall of 2006
January 14, 2008
In Mexico, reporters learn not to name names
TV station illegally holds five of its journalists for 60 hours – Reporters sans frontières – Argentina
January 11, 2008
Giants to broadcast record number of games in Spanish – San Francisco
January 10, 2008
Should Latinos Get Special Treatment From Latino Media?
January 8, 2008
Choice of “Illegal Immigrant” as Texan of the Year makes little sense – Latina Lista
January 7, 2008
Naomi Campbell interviews Hugo Chavez for GQ
December 14, 2007
The Media is the (Anti-Immigrant) Message: Sen. Menendez Calls for Study of Link Between Media and Hate Crimes « Of América
December 11, 2007
Mexican reporter gunned down – Michoacan
December 10, 2007
Español Is Winner of Univision Debate
November 27, 2007
News Hounds: Pat Buchanan Promotes Anti-Hispanic Bigotry On Hannity & Colmes
November 26, 2007
WNCI/Columbus Apologizes for Airing Mexican Parody – Ohio
November 12, 2007
In Seattle, 1100 stand up for media diversity in marathon hearing
Columnists Debate Candidness in US-Mexico Border Issues
November 11, 2007
To Tejanos, music is sound of heritage – Attempts to revive genre on Austin radio are seen by some as ‘brown vs. brown’ racism
October 29, 2007
Bush gets rare exposure in Cuba media
October 25, 2007
Ethnic Media Cover the Fires – California
October 23, 2007
Don’t Give Lou Dobbs a License to Kill Spitzer’s Drivers License Bill
October 14, 2007
Media group: more attacks on free expression in the Americas
