Univision

As the 2010s wind down to a close, MRC Latino recounts the Worst of The Decade from our nation’s domestic Spanish-language media. In this installment we take a look back at some of the most blatantly biased coverage to emerge from the leading Spanish-language network.

In a cheap play for the sympathy of their female audience, Telemundo featured a report on the so-called “Three Comadres of Impeachment” -the three Hispanic congresswomen on the House Judiciary Committee. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sat down with Univision’s Enrique Acevedo as part of the run-up to the trial of President Donald Trump before the United States Senate. In addition to negotiating the rules of the trial in Public, Schumer was all too happy to pander to Hispanics’ respect for the Rule of Law.

Univisión recientemente prestó mucha atención a los esfuerzos de Latinos for Trump, un grupo nacional que tiene como objetivo reclutar 2 millones de voluntarios para ayudar a registrar a los hispanos conservadores antes de las elecciones presidenciales de 2020.

Univision recently paid a lot of attention to the efforts of Latinos for Trump, a nationwide group that aims to recruit 2 million volunteers to help register conservative Hispanics before the 2020 presidential election. The network dedicated over nine minutes of sound bites between three of their news programs – Despierta America, Noticiero Univision and Fusion´s UNews – and their web page, to…

¿Qué hace Univisión cuando no quiere reportar noticias inconvenientes? Las reemplaza con informes sobre las supuestas políticas "antiinmigrantes" del presidente Trump, como fue recientemente el caso en Noticiero Univisión.

What does Univision do when they wish to avoid reporting inconvenient news to their audiences? They bump those stories by rehashing reports on President Trump´s so-called  “anti-immigrant” policies, as was recently the case at Noticiero Univisión.

Durante el mes de noviembre de 2019, unos 28 millones de hispanos en los Estados Unidos contaban con empleos, pero si nos dejamos llevar por los reportes de las cadenas de habla hispana, los latinos son y deben permanecer eternamente dependientes de la asistencia pública.

Toda historia tiene dos caras. Pero a la hora de informar los resultados del informe de los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes en el Comité de Inteligencia contra el de los demócratas, las telecadenas noticiosas de habla hispana en la nación inclinaron la balanza marcadamente a favor de los demócratas, incluso por un margen de casi dos a uno.

A record 28 million plus Hispanics in the United States were employed in November, 2019, but from what the Spanish-speaking nets convey, Latinos are – and must remain - eternally dependent on government assistance.

What was once anomalous bias by omission is now a familiar monthly ritual. The nation’s leading Spanish-language networks can’t seem to wrap their heads around the idea of having to report on the Trump administration’s jobs numbers within the Hispanic community, and if they do so, the report must end on some kind of sour note. The November report was no exception.

Every story is supposed to have two sides. But when it came to reporting the impeachment findings of the House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee vs. the Democrats’s report, the nation’s Spanish-speaking news networks tipped the balance in favor of the Democrats, by a margin of nearly 2 to 1.

It is known that immigration advocacy is the cornerstone of Univision’s “Agenda Latina,” the first issue among many others for which the network advocates. Transgenderism is also one such issue, and the network is not above inserting its agenda into its coverage by any means necessary.

The nation’s leading Spanish-language news network continues to inject its opposition to President Donald Trump into every possible angle. The most recent instance of institutional bias is reflected in a report on a recent study by the American Heart Association.