So, when is a crisis a crisis? From what viewers see on Telemundo, NBC’s sister network for the U.S. Hispanic market, it all depends on who says so: if the cry comes from liberal media allies and activists, it’s “I told you so." But should the word ‘crisis’ come from the mouth of President Trump, it’s “no way, José.”
During the month just prior to last year’s mid-term elections, Telemundo – as well as other liberal national news networks catering to the Hispanic market – went all-out in their coverage of the migrant caravans from Central America, portraying the situation as an emergency and humanitarian crisis, with numbers showing a notable increase in unauthorized family units trying to get into the U.S. Witness Telemundo correspondent Francisco Cuevas on October 19, 2018, stating that the number of families detained crossing illegally “increased 80% over the month of July.”
However, following the midterms and with the President demanding funds to build a wall to help deal with what he has identified as a “humanitarian crisis at the border”, the talking points changed, and now, you guessed it, there is NO crisis at all: miracle of miracles, “illegal crossings are at the lowest level in 18 years”, according to anchor José Díaz-Balart in a January 9, 2019 report.
JOSÉ DÍAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: Trump said that the southern border lives an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The truth is that illegal crossings are at the lowest level in 18 years.
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FRANCISCO CUEVAS, CORRESPONDENT, TELEMUNDO: Data obtained from the Washington Post state that in September, close to 17-thousand family members were detained, an increase of 80% over the month of July.
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DÍAZ-BALART: The Administration's latest effort to stop asylum-seekers, whose requests have doubled this year.
The hypocrisy is so flagrant and in-your-face, it begs to question if you can ever take veteran anchor José Díaz-Balart and his team of reporters seriously at all. The answer at this juncture, unfortunately, is fast and easy: “No way, José”.
