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Article: RESEARCH FOCUSES ON NETWORK NEWS IMAGE OF LATINOS.(L.A. LIFE)(Statistical Data Included)

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June 14, 1996
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Byline: Robin Dougherty Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire

New research confirms some viewers' suspicions that network news portrays Latinos more often as criminals or problematic immigrants than as creative, civic-minded, intelligent individuals.

Only 1 percent of all stories reported on network news are about Latin Americans, who make up 10 percent of the population, according to a report issued this week by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Worse, those stories contain negative themes more often than positive ones. More than 85 percent of network news stories about Latinos are about crime, affirmative action, immigration or ...

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