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Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has been dubbed "Star newscaster
of Hispanic TV." In addition to his role as news anchor on the
Spanish-language network, Ramos now hosts "America with Jorge Ramos",
an English-language program on the recently launched Fusion network.
Brooke speaks with Ramos about how his new job is exposing him to a
wider media audience.
Quantic and his combo Barbara – una tarde en mariquita (From Colombia)
Guests:
Jorge RamosHosted by:
Brooke Gladstone
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The story was great, but the
music at the end was unstoppable! Please what was the music sting at the
end of the Jorge Ramos story?
I am happy for journalists to take a position and *state what that position is*. Journalism always takes a position, by working for an audience via selection of story and story angle. It is frustrating for the audience to be painfully aware of this, and yet to suffer through journalism's insistence that it is "unbiased". Take a damn position! Speak it! No mames!
I am happy for journalists to take a position and *state what that position is*. Journalism always takes a position, by working for an audience via selection of story and story angle. It is frustrating for the audience to be painfully aware of this, and yet to suffer through journalism's insistence that it is "unbiased". Take a damn position! Speak it! No mames!
Jul. 05 2014 08:50 PM
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Brooke asked Jorge Ramos about
the influence that Univision's chairman, Haim Saban, might have on
Ramos' coverage of the Clintons. (Saban is famously close to them: see,
e.g., this New Yorker profile[1].) Which raises a question that she
could have asked (but didn't) and to which (IMHO) OTM should devote some
attention:
Saban is an Israeli-born, dual-citizenship billionaire passionately dedicated to promoting a pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian agenda in the US through think-tank spending, political spending, and controlling media[1]. (Can you say, "Powell memo"[2] ?-) Saban owns (through SCG) Univision, seeks to own the NY Times and the LA Times--in the latter case, to "turn [it] from a pro-Palestinian paper [sic] into a balanced paper"[1]--and founded the Brookings Saban Center. What might be the influence of such a figure on US media and politics, WRT, say, Middle-Eastern coverage and policy? Sound like a great question for OTM? Not so far[3], and I'm not holding my breath: the probability that WNYC broadcasts about a Jewish Zionist billionaire openly dedicated to manipulating US politics and media could be less than zero :-(
But, wait, you ask: what about "Citizen Adelson"[4]? Close but not quite: the story there was a Jewish Zionist billionaire manipulating *Israeli* press and politics, which I'm guessing is just about as far as WNYC is willing to go. Go ahead, OTM--prove me wrong!
[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=all
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_memo
[3]: http://www.onthemedia.org/search/?q=Saban
[4]: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/234375-citizen-adelson/
Jul. 04 2014 09:59 PM
Saban is an Israeli-born, dual-citizenship billionaire passionately dedicated to promoting a pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian agenda in the US through think-tank spending, political spending, and controlling media[1]. (Can you say, "Powell memo"[2] ?-) Saban owns (through SCG) Univision, seeks to own the NY Times and the LA Times--in the latter case, to "turn [it] from a pro-Palestinian paper [sic] into a balanced paper"[1]--and founded the Brookings Saban Center. What might be the influence of such a figure on US media and politics, WRT, say, Middle-Eastern coverage and policy? Sound like a great question for OTM? Not so far[3], and I'm not holding my breath: the probability that WNYC broadcasts about a Jewish Zionist billionaire openly dedicated to manipulating US politics and media could be less than zero :-(
But, wait, you ask: what about "Citizen Adelson"[4]? Close but not quite: the story there was a Jewish Zionist billionaire manipulating *Israeli* press and politics, which I'm guessing is just about as far as WNYC is willing to go. Go ahead, OTM--prove me wrong!
[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=all
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_memo
[3]: http://www.onthemedia.org/search/?q=Saban
[4]: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/234375-citizen-adelson/
