Chandra Levy
AP, ABCNews.com Omit Convicted Killer's Illegal Immigration Status, MS
November 22nd, 2010 1:21 PM
Correction: My initial post incorrectly conveyed that Chandra Levy was an intern for then-Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.). She was in fact an intern for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
"Salvadoran Immigrant Ingmar Guandique Found Guilty of Murdering D.C. Intern Chandra Levy "
That was the breaking news headline that was blasted to my inbox from ABCNews.com regarding today's murder conviction of…
Media Still Can’t Bring Themselves to Call Chandra Levy Suspect an I
May 16th, 2010 11:02 PM
You would think that in the midst of the liberal media's fight to rip Arizona's Immigration Law, that the phrase ‘illegal immigrant' would be fairly easy to use in an appropriate manner. Yet that is seemingly only the case when the phrase is used to cast common-sense immigration enforcement as discriminatory. But when it comes to a story that could shed light on why enforcement is a necessity…
National Media Avoid Identifying Levy Murder Suspect as an Illegal
March 4th, 2009 2:44 AM
CBS, CNN, FNC and the AP on Tuesday all failed to identify Ingmar Guandique, for whom an arrest warrant was issued for the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy, as an illegal alien. In a full story on the CBS Evening News, reporter Bob Orr described him simply as a “Salvadoran immigrant.” During CNN's Situation Room, Zain Verjee benignly called him “a laborer from El Salvador” and later, on Anderson…