LatinaLista — Today, the Kennedy Center Honors made an announcement that was music to the ears of the Latino community. They announced — after undergoing a very public takedown several months ago — that perhaps their selection process doesn’t consider as broad a range of artists as it should. Yet, until representatives of the Latino [...]
In attempt at praising Latinos, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews delivers condescending critique
LatinaLista — Watching MSNBC’s coverage last night of the Democratic National Convention, I was expecting to hear less critique and more cheerleading as opposed to how the convention team, headed by Rachel Maddow and featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and Steve Schmidt among others, responded to the GOP convention last week. [...]
Pew report reveals mainstream media’s Latino coverage is overwhelmingly negative
LatinaLista — The big story being picked up from the new report jointly released yesterday by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and the Pew Hispanic Center is how, given the 47-million strong U.S. Latino population, mainstream media coverage of Latinos remains poor. According to the report: From February 9 to [...]
