[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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