“Latinos In America” is a compelling… trap for Hispanic audiences.
Time Warner, CNN’s parent company, while abetting Lou Dobb’s daily onslaught against Hispanic immigrants, now expects to lure, and even charm Hispanic audiences, with a documentary that is rather offensive in its shallowness.
Time Warner the corporation that boasts “journalistic integrity” has failed on their own promise by hypocritically claiming that “we expect our reporters and editors to be fair and honest…at CNN, integrity and accuracy are of the utmost importance to the brand”.
Everyday, since 2004, Mr. Dobbs has portrayed immigrants as “criminal illegal aliens”. Mr. Dobbs lied and presented as a fact things such as “Mexico is our enemy” or that immigrants bring “leprosy” into the United States.
Confronted by the lack of evidence, cynically he would reply, “If we reported it, it’s a fact”.
Time Warner claims their brand CNN to be supposedly self-perfecting; we are asked to naively believe, because “systems are in place to monitor quality control.”
Are Dobb’s pernicious attacks then a result of mere oversight?
Time Warner utterly fails to uphold another of its self imposed tenets: “Responsible content”, a sad, empty and grandiose promise to simply lure audiences.
Should we continue to reward CNN, Time Warner, and Lou Dobbs by increasing their ratings with the easy catch of Hispanic audiences throughout the U.S. and Latin America?
“Latinos In America” constitutes a disingenuous attempt to lure Hispanics into a trap, to sheepishly increase CNN’s ratings, enabling for the cable company the harvest of millions of advertising dollars.
The use of Latino journalists and Latino stories (Soledad O’Obrien, Rick Sanchez, Juan Carlos López) as a convenient prop will not change the fact that “Latinos In America” is a daring attempt by CNN and Time Warner to feed Hispanics with one hand,while abetting the hatred of xenophobes through Dobb’s daily rant.
Under the guise of interest in Hispanics, now CNN shows a belated concern for them and decries Latinos in America “have been misreported or, in some cases, neglected by the media,” in words of its vice president and senior executive producer Mark Nelson. When asked, Mr. Nelson was unclear on whether “Latinos In America” would even be translated into Spanish.
“We’re in the business of weighing the important issues of our time and the fascinating people and stories that impact those issues,” claimed the same spokesperson while selling “In America,” which turns out to be one of many CNN franchises featuring minorities.
CNN and Time Warner: What exactly are we Latinos to you?
“Fascinating people” or “criminal illegal aliens”?
One way or another it seems we only serve to amuse the greater audiences that feed the monstrous machine of advertising dollars.
CNN is Dobbs, and Dobbs is merely another franchise like the “In America” series.
To picture how twisted this false pretense can be, let’s think of the awards CNN Dobb’s has collected throughout these years:
“Luminary”, “Man of the Year”, “Excellence in the coverage of Immigration”, “Distinguished American”, even “Father of the Year”.
How shallow. How grotesque.
The idiocy would be that Hispanics continue to bestow CNN and Dobbs the credit and loyalty they never deserved, just like the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) in 2003 boasted, among its own prod supporters, no other than Mr. Lou Dobbs. No doubt, a distinguished member of the Hispanic Journalism Association “anchor’s circle”.
Is this an oversight, or are we simply gullible?
Hispanics cannot afford to support this whitewash and accept the candy, no matter how sweet and compelling, from strangers such as Dobbs, CNN, and Time Warner.
De parte de los familiares de Felicita R. Melendez le envio un agradecimieto especial por honrar como maestra de maestras.Soy prima hermana de ella y recuerdo cuando le asignaron su primer salon de clases en un campo de Cayey nos llevaba antes de comenzar las clases a limpiarlo y ponerlo en condiciones para sus estudiantes.Muchos recuerdos que guardamos de esa epoca.Gracias.
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Latinos en America
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Luz Miriam Berrios, octubre 22, 2009
Esperaba con mucho entusismo este reportaje...pero lo encontré falto de contenido.Nos debemos identificar con los"Garcias"". Lou debe retirarse!!!!!!!!! Su programa es un insulto e todos los latinos.
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when did an O'brain come from Mexico.
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joseph Osteen, octubre 25, 2009
They should pay their dews and their taxes
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Why is this in spaish
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joseph Osteen, octubre 25, 2009
english not good enough any more.
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Illegal aliens
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violet, octubre 25, 2009
Lou Dobbs has never said anything bad about immigrants, he were always against illegal immigrants, it is not right for people to say anything nasty about Lou Dobbs when he is against illegal immigrants in this country, from what i hear from Lou, he is right!!! There should not be any illegal immigrants in America running freely in America, they should not be employed in America period, their children should not be in our schools, they should not be employed in America, while million of America are unemployed. they are no better workers then Americans, they just work for so much lower wages then Americans, they also help bring the America working wages down, regardless of what Obama and many of our politicians may say, and of course,all their advocates! Illegal aliens in America should not be first in line to any thing in America. Illegal aliens should be caught and deported, and all of their children should go with them, our schools and colleges should not have been given to their children either. They should be caught in our employment and deported, the more illegal aliens America get rid of, the more there would be employment for American citizens.
Latinos in America, was not understandable to me, because there is nothing wrong with Latinos being in America, that do not bother people, America is a diverse country!! it is the invasion of illegal Latinos, Hispanics, Mexicans, mostly from Mexico, in America, Americans do not mind sharing America with Latinos, it is the way illegal aliens come to America, so boldly, rudely, nastily aggressively and are being so allow to just spit and walk all over American citizens as if they no longer exist anymore, the way they think that this is their America anyway, and they are here to take it back, and how they are working on building their Latino, Hispanic, Mexican colony in America! How they are sneakily conquering America, with the help of our own politicians and all their advocates.and with the implementing all of their schemes, scams, plots and plans!!!
You see Americans do know that America is an immigrant country! They also know that America is also a country of laws, they are wondering what happen to our immigration laws, why were an invasion of illegal immigration allow to happen in America, and why are illegal aliens allow to scheme and scam America with all their wrongdoings?? Americans are being force to watch illegal immigrants come here on all of their illegal status just take over America, them and all of their advocates are just literately just running, American for their own purpose, just march and protest our street for all their wants and needs of America, them just wanting to suddenly change our American constitution, this means our laws, rules, and regulations for their very own purpose! Americans are just being slapped in the face by all illegal immigrants wrongdoings in America.
And when Americans tend to voice their opinion about the unfairness about illegal immigrants in America, they are suddenly racist, " they just don't like Latinos, Hispanics, or Mexicans" this is just a strategies or excuse, they and all of their advocates use to get what they want in America. If illegal aliens get a path to citizenship in America it will be a big disaster, it will be a terrible resentment from American citizens, as of now illegal aliens have tarnished American citizens status, because it doesn't mean anything anymore, they had made our laws a big double standard, because Americans are required to abide all American laws, illegal aliens are not required to abide America laws, if they were, they wouldn't be here in the first place!
Our American politicians seemed to have let to much of their compassion for illegal immigrants get in the way with our laws! Now it is suddenly un-American to stop illegal immigrants in America! When is the insanity of illegal immigration in America going to stop?? All of this bragging about Hispanic race becoming the over populated race in America also is a terrible disaster, because they have cheated to become the over populated race, this over populations is not by natural circumstances, it is by millions of their schemes and scams, all of this is purposely being ignored!!! Only the American see this!! All of this is what Americans are hollering about!!
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From a half breed
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Mutt, noviembre 06, 2009
I just want to comment on the illegal immigrant issue. Here is a solution as I see it, If you believe in giving rights and benefits to illegals then you can sign up as a democrat/liberal. Oh, and universal health care. If you do not agree with these issues and do not want to give illegals benefits (wellfair, health care, and HUD) then you should sign up as a republican. If you decide that you want to be a dem, then you get to pay for it with what ever taxes it takes. Us rep's will take care of ourselfs. Now, you think anyone will be a democrat? Thats the reality of this situation. It's a new time and the argument that this country was built on the backs of immigrants is out of date. In the 1600, 1700, and 1800 hundreds there were no government benefits, payed by taxes, that went to illegals.
