[lit-ideas] Re: reforming immigration

  • From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:36:11 -0500

Two media-related stories. First is an account of how the Spanish-language TV channels helped rally their viewerships in LA for the demonstrations.

Spanish Media Organized Nationwide Mass Protests

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_087231321.html
(AP) LOS ANGELES The marching orders were clear: Carry American flags and pack the kids, pick up your trash and wear white for peace and for effect.


Many of the 500,000 people who crammed downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to protest legislation that would make criminals out of illegal immigrants learned where, when and even how to demonstrate from the Spanish-language media.

For English-speaking America, the mass protests in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities over the past few days have been surprising for their size and seeming spontaneity.

But they were organized, promoted or publicized for weeks by Spanish-language radio hosts and TV anchors as a demonstration of Hispanic pride and power.

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Second is an account of how Lou Dobbs has become an important voice in the anti-illegals movement.


Anchor-Advocate on Immigration Wins Viewers

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/politics/29dobbs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By BILL CARTER and JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: March 29, 2006

The nation's most prominent opponent of current immigration policy began his day yesterday on the "Today" show on NBC, debating a Hispanic defender of illegal immigrants. He moved on to "American Morning" on CNN to denounce a bill passed by the Senate Judiciary

Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchor, a central figure in the debate over immigration policy.

By nightfall he was on a plane headed to Mexico, where he intended to assess critically the planned discussions on the issue between President Bush and President Vicente Fox of Mexico.

This central figure in the increasingly fractious debate over future immigration policy was not a senator or congressman, nor even a lobbyist on either side of the issue. It was instead, a television news anchor, Lou Dobbs of CNN.

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