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Article #1138Re: Fox News faces heat for using the word 'illegals' when referring to wetbacks
From: Lauren Orda
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:35
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:35
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<striker714@mail.com> wrote in message news:d4srm5101msuqntd239nurf9sed3hffe15@4ax.com... > On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:37:12 -0600, Jose@Casa_Mierda wrote: > >>Media Matters today is taking Fox News to task for the network's >>persistent >>use of the word "illegals" as shorthand for illegal immigrants. >> >>The media watchdog organization cited this on-screen text during today's >>edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: "Estimates: 980,000 illegals living in >>FL." >> >>Media Matters described Fox News' pattern of using "illegals" as a >>pejorative >>and unprofessional way to refer to immigrants in the United States without >>legal status. >> >>Says Media Matters in a statement: >> >>Prominent journalists' associations have denounced the use of the term >>"illegals" >>by the news media, noting that the term "criminaliz[es] the person, not >>the action," >>and "skew[s] the public debate on immigration issues." >> >>http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2010/02/post_344.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fimmigration+%28NewsWatch%3A+Immigration%29 > > If some folks want something more scientific-sounding how about this: > > "mestizo parasitosis rodenta"; > > with an apology to many useful four-footed rodents. > > striker If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duch and walks like a duck, then it sure as hell is a duck!!! Maybe they should be referred to as illegal legals, which evens out the issue!!!!
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