{"id":27960,"date":"2015-05-07T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=27960"},"modified":"2015-05-08T19:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T02:22:44","slug":"slander-vs-pander-how-fox-news-exploits-bigotry-against-latinos-for-political-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=27960","title":{"rendered":"Slander vs. Pander: How Fox News Exploits Bigotry Against Latinos For Political Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Hillary Clinton revealed some details of her platform on immigration. She expressed support for a pathway to citizenship and a policy that…<\/p>\n

“…treats everyone with dignity and compassion, upholds the rule of law, protects our border and national security, and brings hard-working people out of the shadows and into the formal economy so they can pay taxes and contribute to our nation\u2019s prosperity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is a position that most recent polling shows is favored by most Americans. This puts the Republican Party in a bind of their own making due to their long-standing opposition to Latino issues and to what they falsely call amnesty. And as if to exacerbate that problem, Fox News weighs in with a dishonest and cynical approach to journalism that tries to cut both ways.<\/p>\n

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On the the Fox News Latino website, Fox posted a report on Clinton’s policy address with a headline reading “Hillary Clinton makes deportation protection, path to citizenship central to campaign.”<\/em> That’s a fairly straightforward description of the remarks Clinton made and treats the subject seriously and without prejudice.<\/p>\n

Now lets travel over to the Fox Nation website to see how they covered the same story. Their headline reads “Hillary Clinton Vows to Expand Obama Amnesty to More Illegals.”<\/em> That begins by lying about the Obama policy which contains nothing even resembling amnesty. For the record, amnesty is a “general pardon for offenses,”<\/em> however, the Obama doctrine is one that contains considerable prerequisites for eligibility and takes years to satisfy.<\/p>\n

More offensive is the use of the term “illegals”<\/em> to describe undocumented residents. Most reputable news agencies have banned the use of the word as an epithet that does not properly describe the subjects it is insulting. Fox News Latino is among those who have banned the term. But Fox News and Fox Nation use it routinely.<\/p>\n

What is happening here is something that News Corpse has documented in the past<\/a>. Fox News is attempting to pander to Latinos, the fastest growing demographic group (and voter bloc) in the nation, by treating issues that affect them in a more balanced way on their Latino-themed website. At the same time, Fox is resorting to their standard stance of overt prejudice on their main outlets so as not to alienate their bigoted audience that is clamoring for an electrified border fence with a fiery moat stocked with alligators.<\/p>\n

This is a cynical attempt to con the Latinos segregated on the Fox Latino site into believing that Fox News has their interests at heart. But a quick look at the rest of Fox News reveals that their bias is openly on display. This phony media strategy is also an effort by Fox to repair the damage that Republican candidates do to their electoral prospects by maligning a critical community of voters. The GOP cannot win a national election without a substantial percentage of the Latino vote, and if the candidates are too beholden to their Tea Party constituency to show these voters respect, Fox has taken on the responsibility of cleaning up their mess.<\/p>\n

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Fox News must think that Latinos are pretty stupid if they believe that they will fall for this ruse. In the end Fox will not only fail to lull the Latino community into compliance, they will earn their enduring distrust. After Obama’s reelection in 2012, the Republican Party did an exhaustive study of what went so horribly wrong. One of the main conclusions was that the party failed to reach out to minorities and women, and that they would have to improve upon that in the future. Since then their outreach programs have mainly served to drive more minority voters away, except when they weren’t ignoring them completely. And the fact that Fox News still finds it necessary to engage in this sort of duplicity is proof that the party continues to fall behind in the race to represent all of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week Hillary Clinton revealed some details of her platform on immigration. 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