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Univision Takes Note: Historic Drop in Hispanic Poverty Under Trump

Latino
March 5th, 2019 7:34 PM
MRC Latino is mostly known for its constant drumbeat pointing out and countering slanted or dishonest reporting in the U.S. Hispanic news segment. In recent months, the critique has often included the relative dearth of reporting on U.S. economic news.

Spanish Nets Suppress Coverage of Born-Alive Protection Vote

Latino
February 28th, 2019 4:00 PM
The United States Senate finally held a vote on the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act. The vote tally fell along mostly partisan lines and ultimately failed. Inexplicably, none of this was reported on any of the leading national Spanish-language newscasts.

A Lesson from Jorge Ramos's Arrest: Venezuela Is Not Iowa

Latino
February 26th, 2019 2:20 PM
The illegal and arbitrary detention of a Univision News team, headed by senior anchor Jorge Ramos, at Venezuela’s presidential Miraflores Palace serves to showcase the very real and present risks that are concomitant to the practice of journalism. Unfortunately, it also has the potential of birthing some very bad takes.

Spanish Nets Silent on Green New Deal

Latino
February 23rd, 2019 12:49 PM
The controversial Green New Deal, pitched by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), received no coverage whatsoever from  the nation’s leading Spanish-language networks, despite broad reaction that was equal parts cheering, revulsion, and mockery.
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Bernie Refuses to Call Maduro a Dictator on Univision

Latino
February 22nd, 2019 5:21 PM
Just as he did in 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is once again badly tripping up in his interviews on Univision. In his latest interview with the top U.S. Spanish-language media outlet, the Vermont senator's evident soft spot for disastrous socialist leaders and governments in Latin America left aghast both the network’s viewers and anchors.
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DNC Chief Touts Latino 'Blue Wall' For 2020

Latino
February 13th, 2019 4:59 PM
Univision’s weekly political affairs show Al Punto recently featured a familiar guest, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Pérez, as well as the rollout of some familiar tropes - just in time for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Badly Malfunctioning ‘Lie Detector’ at Univision

Latino
February 7th, 2019 2:09 PM
Like a lot of the rest of the liberal media, Univision has clearly chosen to weaponize its fact-checking operation as part of its anti-Trump arsenal. On the evening of the President’s State of the Union Address, for example, the network’s heralded “Lie Detector” not only badly misfired against Trump, but also completely failed to catch a major fib told during the Democrats’ Spanish-language…
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ABC Hides Sexual Assault Allegations Against Northam’s Replacement

February 4th, 2019 9:09 PM

As the blackface/KKK scandal consumed Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, the party was calling for him to resign and to let “rising star” Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor, take over. But the young Democrat had his own problem in the form of a new sexual assault allegation. Despite the Monday accusations being seen by some as serious and credible, that evening’s ABC World News…

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Latino Nets Show Colors Covering Women’s March vs. March for Life

Latino
February 2nd, 2019 8:00 AM
The annual March for Life and Women’s March have become back-to-back events for two large, sharply clashing constituencies. By covering the Women’s March 17 times more than the March for Life, the top two national Spanish-language television newscasts in the United States reveal their clear preference for publicizing the agenda of one march, but not the other.
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Trump’s High Hispanic Popularity Finally Reported on Latino Nets

Latino
February 1st, 2019 12:06 PM
Several days after the poll’s initial release and following repeated Twitter prodding on the subject by the President himself, the nation’s top two Spanish-language television networks finally got around to reporting on the big jump in job approval for Trump among Hispanics.

Ramos Triples Down On The Border

Latino
January 30th, 2019 1:20 PM
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos continues to triple down on in his ongoing war of words against proposed border security initiatives. His latest column picks up where his New York Times piece left off.
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Jorge Ramos Doesn't Even Bother To Hide The Bias Anymore

Latino
January 29th, 2019 7:00 PM
Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos doesn’t even bother to contain his biases anymore, as shown on a recent segment of Univision’s Sunday political affairs show Al Punto. Watch as Ramos asks an immigration advocate whether a wall would work, and then agrees sotto voce with the advocate’s answer:

Jorge Ramos Ramps Up Anti-Wall Campaign

Latino
January 29th, 2019 3:53 PM
The New York Times recently saw fit to print an op-ed by Univision’s senior news anchor, Jorge Ramos, titled “Trump Is the Wall”. In doing so, the Times not only enables Ramos’ endless anti-Trump jihad, but provides an ample platform from which to further disseminate a series of assumptions and half-truths that further solidify Ramos’ status as the most biased national news anchor, regardless of…

Trump’s 50 Percent Hispanic Popularity Is Just the Beginning

Latino
January 24th, 2019 1:28 PM
Trump’s approval rating among Latinos has hit 50%, as I wrote it would nearly three years ago, in March of 2016. His approval rating could go on to surpass even this marker by addressing the border crisis at its source. This would be a disruptive, transformational development for all of Latin America.