How Latinos Languish on Network News
UCLA Professor Otto Santa Ana notes that less than 1 percent of evening news stories are about Latinos—and how to better cover the community.
Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States. But you wouldn’t know it from watching network news. Less than 1 percent of the evening news coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN focuses on Latinos—and not much about the content or tone of the stories is positive. That’s the startling discovery in a new book by Northeast Los Angeles resident and UCLA linguist Otto Santa Ana. Titled Juan in a Hundred: The Representation of Latinos on Network News, the book blends quantitative research, semiotics, cognitive science and humanist theory in a scholarly but accessible manner to highlight the consequences of a deplorable trend. (Juan in a Hundred is a pun on the professor’s 2004 finding that no more than one in…
Rusty Taylor
1:06 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
This country was founded on the premise of ASSIMILATION not DIFFERENTIATION. So this is actually a GOOD thing! more ›