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    Latinos want bias probe of Fox, talk radio

    Latinos want bias probe of Fox, talk radio

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    Latino groups Wednesday blamed a surge in hate crimes against Hispanics on harmful stereotypes portrayed on TV and in conservative media and are asking the administration to probe Fox News and talk radio, two media cited by the groups as the worst perpetrators.

    "We want the government to investigate this," said Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "Unless we start this dialogue, these assaults will go on," he said, citing a surge in hate crimes against Hispanics.

    Also charging Fox News and talk radio with portraying Hispanics poorly, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said the administration should provide "protection from the stimuli that is being promoted out there that is causing the correlation between violence, stereotyping and the increasing racism in this country against Latinos."

    News industry insiders, however, noted that Fox has a sister division, Fox Latino, which was recently lauded by NPR. Fox also has several Hispanic hosts.

    Francisco Cortes of Fox News Latino told Secrets, "The poll is yet another example of publicity hounds in action and they're clearly unaware of the existence of Fox News Latino."

    Nogales said his group has been measuring media bias against Latinos since 2008 and now he feels it's time for the government to step in. To back up his claim and provide the Federal Communications Commission with ammo to use against news outlets, Nogales commissioned polling from Latino Decisions to test American views of Hispanics.

    In one survey of stereotypes held by 900 non-Latinos, 88 percent said that Hispanics take jobs from Americans, 92 percent said they refuse to learn English and 80 percent believe Hispanics are on welfare. When asked how Latinos are portrayed in TV and film roles, 71 percent said as a criminal and 64 percent as a gardener.

    Another survey asked Fox, NPR, MSNBC CNN and talk radio fans about Hispanics. Fox viewers accepted the most stereotypes of Hispanics, MSNBC the least. They also compared Fox's Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's viewers and found that half of O'Reilly's watchers "think Latinos are on welfare and refuse to learn English."

    The 80-page poll and analysis concluded that "conservative talk radio and Fox News audiences hold significantly more anti-immigrant and anti-Latino opinions."

    Matt Barreto, of Latino Decisions, said that the FCC should chart Hispanic stereotypes in the news. "There is a role for more monitoring," he said.

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    They also compared Fox's Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's viewers and found that half of O'Reilly's watchers "think Latinos are on welfare and refuse to learn English."
    The last part of this sentence should read "think latinos are on welfare and refuse to use and/or learn English.

    I know in my town this is absolutely true for about 90% of them. It's not a stereotype.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2012 CONTACT: Sarah R. Bisconte BravaGuapa@mac.com (914) 310-0467

    NHMC POLL FINDS THAT NEGATIVE MEDIA PORTRAYALS ARE FUELING STEREOTYPES ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND LATINOS NHMC Renews Call for Federal Government to Study Hate Speech in Media

    WASHINGTON, D.C. The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) today released a national poll showing that media portrayals of Latinos and immigrants are fueling rampant negative stereotypes among the general population that are diminishing perceptions of these groups throughout the United States. Tomorrow the NHMC will file letters with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), sharing this new poll data and renewing unanswered requests that NHMC made back in 2009 for the agencies to study the impacts of hate speech in media.

    At a press conference in Washington, D.C., Alex Nogales, President and CEO of NHMC, presented the poll findings alongside Congressman Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and fellow civil rights activists from the NAACP, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA).

    “Today we stand together with our allies from the African American and LGBT communities against hate speech in media, and to advocate for more positive portrayals of people of color and LGBT people in media,” Nogales said. “We unite behind this issue as this new poll data shows the propensity of media images – negative or positive – to impact people’s opinions about our communities.”

    NHMC, through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, commissioned the highly-respected polling firm, Latino Decisions, to conduct the research. The two-part poll included a national phone survey with a sample size of 900 non-Latino respondents and an interactive online experiment of 3,000 non-Latino respondents. The overall margin of error for the national telephone poll is +/- 3.3% and for the online media bias experiment is +/- 1.8%. During the phone survey, respondents were asked a series of more than ninety questions about their news and entertainment habits and their opinions about Latinos and immigrants. For the online portion, respondents were exposed to positive and negative short video clips, print articles, and audio clips. Immediately after exposure to the stimuli, respondents were asked their opinions about Latinos and immigrants.

    For instance, after viewing just one minute of media content, poll respondents changed the way they view Latinos. When asked if Latinos were intelligent, those who consumed negative news and entertainment pieces were much more likely to rate Latinos as unintelligent, while those who consumed positive pieces were much more likely to rate Latinos as intelligent. Moreover, Nogales called it “disturbing” that the poll found there is a common misperception that Latinos and undocumented immigrants are one in the same, with 17% of survey respondents actually believing that the majority of U.S. Latinos are undocumented. “The media is doing a disservice with coverage that is misleading the public about Latinos who live in the U.S. It is producing attitudes among non-Latinos that contribute to hate speech and hate crimes. We must demand that the media do a better job with its coverage.

    The poll also found that:

     People exposed to negative entertainment or news narratives about Latinos and/or immigrants hold the most unfavorable and hostile views about both groups.

     Negative portrayals of Latinos and immigrants are pervasive in news and entertainment media. Consequently, non-Latinos commonly believe that many media-promoted negative stereotypes about these groups are true.

     Conservative talk radio and Fox News audiences are less likely to be personally familiar with Latinos yet more likely to hold anti-immigrant and anti-Latino views. Without direct experience with Latinos, media takes on a larger role in establishing these opinions and attitudes.

     Even those most disposed to positive opinions about Latinos have less favorable opinions when exposed to negative entertainment or news narratives.

     In discussing those in this country without documentation, the term commonly employed by some media outlets, “illegal aliens,” elicits much more negatives feelings than the term “undocumented immigrants.”

     Non-Latinos report seeing Latinos in stereotypically negative or subordinate roles (gardeners, maids, dropouts, and criminals) in television and film.

    Furthermore, the poll found that the general public relies heavily on television for news and information, with 66 percent watching major network and cable newscasts and only 30 percent trusting Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks or online-only news sources.

    Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) was unable to attend the press conference, but issued the following statement in support of NHMC’s work: “We get calls in my office from angry and outraged talk radio listeners several times a week filled with misconceptions and negative stereotypes. The reality is that when you strip away the anger, underneath there is a lot of consensus among Democrats, Republicans, and independents on the immigration issue and how to get things back on a legal footing. Solutions are within reach. Talk radio is an obstacle to reforming immigration but not an insurmountable one.”

    A copy of the full poll results is available at Reports | The National Hispanic Media Coalition

    http://nhmc.org/sites/default/files/...sh%20FINAL.pdf
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    ADDED TO ALIPAC HOMEPAGE News with amended title ..

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    Of course, latinos are subject to being criticized for what they've done or did not do. Had legal hispanics, latinos, controlled their own, approaching others like them but unknown to them,, explaining that "our reputation is good and we will not condone you destroying our reputation in any way"....well, this problem would have been smaller.

    If you know one, that is American citizen, ask them if they did this. I have, the answer is no, the reason is "I'm scared of them."

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    If they didn't refuse to speak english, we wouldn't be forced to speak spanish in order to get many jobs. We wouldn't be pressing 1 for english to make a damned phone call, we wouldn't need important information printed in a foreign language.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mayday View Post
    The last part of this sentence should read "think latinos are on welfare and refuse to use and/or learn English.

    I know in my town this is absolutely true for about 90% of them. It's not a stereotype.
    Is it any wonder on the speak English part? Even if they KNOW it - they DO NOT speak it! I was at my sons school for 6th grade "back to school night" last week. Hispanic family sat right in front us - saying "aqui, aqui" and pointing to the table to sit down at. Pissed me off. By sixth grade the kid knows English and thinks nothing of continuing to speak spanish in front of the teacher and everyone else. This, after all the tax dollars and sacrifice to my own kids education. Truly insulting.

    Just this morning, I was speaking to a neighbor while waiting for the bus to pick out kids up for school. Said his son is in the bi-lingual program. He saw his son learn a few words of spanish while doing terrible in his own English and reading comprehension. In the mean time the hispanic kids know English well and are excelling in both. I know this child and he not a slouch scholastically. It's really sad how these politicians roll out the red carpet for them while short changing America's kids.
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    I would like Univision investigated for encouraging illegals to break American laws and encouraging non-citizens to influence the U.S. government.
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    Just another ploy to try to get people to be quiet.
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    How about a bias probe on every California Legislator with a Hispanic surname or a bias probe on the Hispanic Caucus?

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