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SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWS ENVIROMENT

Instructor: Jessica Retis Ph.D.

Retis J. J374SLJ – FallL 2013 - CSUN

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Retis J. 374SLJ - Fall 2013 - CSUN

National Association of Hispanic Journalists

‘Brownout Report 2006’Daniela Montalvo and Joseph Torres, authors

Michael J. ArvizuMonday, Oct. 14, 2013

• The report examines news stories about Latinos and Latino issues that aired in 2005 on ABC’s “World News Tonight,” “CBS Evening News,” and “NBC Nightly News.”


What is the ‘NAHJ Brownout Report’?

• The report contains quantitative (how much of) and qualitative (quality of) assessments of news stories about Latinos that aired during the weeks of May 23 to 27, 2005, and Dec. 5 to 9, 2005.

It studied the portrayal of Latinos during two typical weeks of news coverage on these three network television stations.


What is the ‘NAHJ Brownout Report’?

• Quantitative analyses looks number of stories, story topics, story length, use of Latino reporters and anchors, number of sources used in each story, balance of viewpoints expressed in each story, and overall statistics on the presence of Latinos in Latino stories.


Quantitative analysis


Quantitative analysisWhat did the report find?

By the numbers …Stories about Latinos made up less than one percent (0.83 percent, or 105 out of 12,600 stories) of all network news coverage.All three networks, however, increased (however woeful) their coverage of Latinos, compared to 2004.



By the numbersABC increased its coverage of Latinos and Latino issues with 34 stories in 2005, compared to 30 stories in 2004 (an increase of 0.13 percent).



By the numbersCBS increased its coverage of Latinos and Latino issues with 34 stories in 2005, compared to 23 stories in 2004 (an increase of 0.48 percent, the most of the three networks).



By the numbersNBC increased its coverage of Latinos and Latino issues with 37 stories in 2005, compared to 33 stories in 2004 (an increase of 0.12 percent).



•Topics Immigration made up about 20 percent of network news

coverage, but no single topic dominated in 2005. The top-five stories (in descending order) in 2005 were domestic government, crime, human interest, immigration, and sports.



•Topics Coverage of crime stories rose in 2005.

Most of these stories focused on Latinos as the perpetrators, rather than the victims.



•Topics Latinos also dominated sports stories;

however, the majority of these stories (10 out of 12) were about the allegations or acknowledgment of steroid use by Major League Baseball players that included Cubans Rafael Palmeiro and Jose Canseco, and Dominican Sammy Sosa.



•Topics Domestic government also dominated in

2005. Two stories in particular dominated the news. The nomination and confirmation of Alberto Gonzalez (pictured) as U.S. attorney general, and a Supreme Court ruling on a domestic violence case involving a Colorado woman named Jessica Gonzales and the death of her three children who were killed by their father, Simon Gonzales.



•Miscellaneous Overall, there was an increase in the time networks devoted to Latino

stories, although the total time devoted to Latino stories . The participation of other Latino journalists reporting Latino stories

in 2005 was very low (about 4.8 percent). The majority of Latino stories presented one viewpoint or no

viewpoints. The number of stories featuring no Latinos was down, from 23

stories with no Latinos in 2004 to three stories in 2005, a positive trend.

• Qualitative analysis examines how Latino stories were framed in 2005, the nuances of how Latinos were portrayed and a general evaluation of stories from a more in-depth perspective (for example: universal stories that were not necessarily about Latinos, per say, but had Latinos as the focus).


Qualitative analysis


Qualitative analysisWhat did the report find?

By the numbersLatinos appeared in a variety of stories in the 2005 report, including :



Example of universal stories that featured LatinosThe Supreme Court case of Jessica Gonzales who challenged her local police department for failing to enforce a restraining order which resulted in the death of her children. The case brought about a major domestic violence ruling by the Supreme Court.



Example of universal stories that featured LatinosThe story of Macario Guajardo, a fifth grader who boycotted a standardized test in Texas.The uproar in Rhode Island over the suspension of a student, Eliazar Velasquez, who took pictures of his principal smoking on school property.



Other topics of universal stories that featured LatinosAs noted in the quantitative analysis of Latino stories, crime made up a large portion of the time devoted to portraying Latinos. This is a change from 2004 when crime was not a dominant topic.Among other topics covered by the major networks: politics (specifically, the election of then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the nomination Alberto Gonzalez as attorney general), and immigration. Inexplicably, CBS did not cover Villaraigosa’s election in Los Angeles at all. ABC and NBC did cover this story, but not once did either network interview an identifiable Latino to capture their viewpoint on the monumental election.



The framing of LatinosCrime stories generally covered instances of violent Latinos and gang violence, its increase tied to the growth of undocumented immigrants in the United States.One faux pas that ABC committed, was its use of the word “flooding” to refer to the migration of immigrants to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.


NAHJ ‘Brownout Report’Conclusion

Latinos make up 14.5 percent of the U.S. population, but less than one percent of stories on the network evening news.

Although topics like immigration, crime and government are important, when other stories important to Latinos are not covered, the networks fail in their duty to educate the public and provide their audiences with relevant information.

Latinos continued to be nearly absent from general news coverage. Latino voices are lacking in news coverage. Key political stories about Latinos lacked Hispanic perspectives.


NAHJ ‘Brownout Report’Critical question

How can we, the students in this class who represent the next generation of professional journalists, through our work, assure that Latinos, Hispanics, and Chicanos and Chicanas are represented, without bias, fairly in the media now and in the future?

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