United States
by Josh Silver
May 16 2008
Thursday night, the Senate cast a near-unanimous vote to reverse the Federal Communication Commission’s December 2007 decision to let media companies own both a major TV or radio station and a major daily newspaper in the same city.
by Leonard M. Baynes
Apr 4 2008
The 2008 election has made history with the racial and gender diversity of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates: a white woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton; an African American man, Barack Obama; and a Latino man, Bill Richardson. From the beginning, the media have promoted a two-person contest between Clinton and Obama, virtually excluding all other candidates.
by Alejandro Reuss
Mar 27 2008
On February 25, Sen.
by Angelo Falcón
Nov 7 2007
The controversy over the exclusion of the Latino experience from Ken Burns’s recent documentary The War raised important questions not only about how he and PBS view Latinos, but more generally about Latino and Latin American images in the media. At first PBS and Burns maintained that it was too late to make any changes in the film, but after the Latino community mobilized on this issue, they changed their position, agreeing to make last-minute marginal changes.
by Kristen Bodossian and Otto Santa Ana
Nov 1 2007
George W. Bush inadvertently created a public maelstrom in January 2004, when he proposed a new temporary worker program and a road to citizenship for millions of unauthorized immigrants.
By 2006, immigration had become the major issue on the nation’s political agenda. The last time this happened was in 1994, when California voters passed Proposition 187, which would have denied unauthorized immigrants many public benefits and required state employees (including health care workers and school teachers) to point authorities to “apparently illegal aliens.”
