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Article: NAHJ Discouraged by Network News Coverage of Latinos in 2004.
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- PR Newswire
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- June 16, 2005
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FORT WORTH, Texas, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is once again discouraged by the lack of coverage of Latinos on the network evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. These networks are among the major sources of television news in the country.
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In its 10th Annual Network Brownout Report released today, NAHJ found that out of an estimated 16,000 stories aired on the network evening newscasts in 2004, only 115 stories, or 0.72 percent, were exclusively about Latinos. This was a decrease from 2003, when there were 131 stories about Latinos (0.82 ...