Thread: Power of ethnic press: urging immigration reform

Power of ethnic press: urging immigration reform

Associated Press - July 6, 2009 11:04 PM ET

Corrected Version

NEW YORK (AP) - Ethnic media organizations are demanding urgent action on federal immigration reform - in the languages their audiences speak.

Over 275 broadcast, print and online ethnic media outlets have run or plan to run an editorial calling on the White House and Congress to "move decisively on immigration reform."

The editorial was produced by California-based New America Media, an association of ethnic news organizations.

NAM New York Contributing Editor Marcelo Ballve (Mar-SELL-oh Ball-VEH') says the effort represents a "coming of age" for ethnic media as a "collective actor in civil society."

Among the outlets in New York City supporting the effort are the Weekly Bangla Patrika, Aramica, News India-Times, Nowy Dziennik and El Diario/La Prensa.

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All of the broadcast media in this country is operating under licenses from the Federal Communications Comission, the airwaves are supposed to belong to the American people. The ability to use them is a priveledge not a right. Any ethnic media calling for "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" is acting against the interests of the people of the United States.