The World According to Univision

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO UNIVISION
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Leslie Sanchez, former director of the White House Initiative on Hispanic Education]
[Commentary] On Univision, a Spanish-language TV network with an average prime-time audience of about 3.5 million viewers, slanted statements about the presidential candidates are commonplace. Statements that appear on Univision's Web site, like much of the network's reporting, are missed by the mainstream media because they appear only in Spanish. I have taken an extensive look at Univision and found biased views of American politics regularly presented by the network. This is something all of us need to be concerned about. If their views were presented fairly, it's likely that Republicans would connect with Hispanic voters. That may be why the network's news coverage often downplays issues that make Hispanics dislike Democrats (abortion, same-sex marriage, taxes) and sensationalizes the immigration issue as a way of demonizing Republicans -- even those who are not anti-immigrant. Republicans must engage and demand fairness from Univision, rather than let it propagandize the most conservative segment of the Hispanic population -- the 40% who may speak English, but who are "Spanish-dominant" and consume their news in their native language. Univision isn't alone. Bias is a problem throughout Spanish media. But Univision is the largest and most important part of the Spanish-language media, and it features some of the most unbalanced political news coverage on television and it continues its leftward drift.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118964478980025903.html?mod=todays_us_opinion
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