{"id":40496,"date":"2015-03-18T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40496"},"modified":"2015-03-18T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:15:07","slug":"hispanic-journalists-to-survey-race-in-spanish-language-tv-after-univision-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40496","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/17\/nahj-rodner-figueroa_n_6885504.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoqPlanas\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Roque Planas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carolina Moreno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nahj.org\" target=\"_blank\">The National Hispanic Journalists Association<\/a> applauded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Univision\" target=\"_blank\">Univision\u2019s<\/a> decision to fire host Rodner Figueroa, after he compared first lady <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Obama<\/a> to a character from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planet_of_the_Apes\" target=\"_blank\">Planet of the Apes<\/a>\u201d during a segment of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Gordo_y_la_Flaca\" target=\"_blank\">El Gordo Y La Flaca<\/a>\u201d last week.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement published to NAHJ\u2019s website on Tuesday, the organization&#8217;s President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mekahlonbcla\" target=\"_blank\">Mekahlo Medina<\/a> called Figueroa\u2019s comments \u201cracist\u201d and said that <a href=\"http:\/\/nahj.org\/nahj-commends-univision-for-swift-action-after-racist-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Univision made \u201cthe right decision\u201d by dismissing him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnivision, the fifth largest network in the U.S., took a stand against racism and we are all better for it,\u201d Medina&#8217;s statement said. \u201cBut I keep wondering, what was Figueroa thinking when those words came out of his mouth? Why was it okay for him, at that moment, to compare the First Lady of the United States or any person to an ape? And why, still today, does he think that was not racist?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Medina also highlighted the lack of racial diversity within both the Spanish-language and English-language news media, saying it helps perpetuate a \u201chierarchy of skin color and race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many dark-skin or afro-Latino anchors do you see on Spanish language newscasts?\u201d Medina said in the statement. \u201cHow many indigenous Latinos do you see on any newscast, English or Spanish? There isn\u2019t a single Latino\/a anchoring an 11pm English language newscast in Los Angeles, despite the market being 53% Latino and overwhelmingly English speaking or bilingual.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/17\/nahj-rodner-figueroa_n_6885504.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident The Huffington Post 2015-03-17 Roque Planas Carolina Moreno The National Hispanic Journalists Association applauded Univision\u2019s decision to fire host Rodner Figueroa, after he compared first lady Michelle Obama to a character from \u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d during a segment of \u201cEl Gordo Y La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,14646,8,20],"tags":[19651,10108,19654,2099,19655,19652,19653,17387,2425,19656],"class_list":["post-40496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carolina-moreno","tag-huffington-post","tag-mekahlo-medina","tag-michelle-obama","tag-nahj","tag-national-hispanic-journalists-association","tag-rodner-figueroa","tag-roque-planas","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-univision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}