http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/immigration-coverage-negative-3632/ Nationally Acclaimed Politics, Science and Culture Coverage Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/immigration-coverage-negative-3632/#comment-454 Mary Hopkins Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:55:16 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/06/17/why-is-immigration-coverage-often-so-negative/#comment-454 A perspective from New England: The trend has exceptions. I live in Greater Boston. Here we have some sanctuary cities, where the press is mostly relatively friendly (some exceptions in the letters) and some cities where anti-immigrant organizations have drawn the attention of SPLC, where the papers try to be balanced but are getting bombarded in letters and comments. I live in an in-between town: no sanctuary laws, 30% foreign-born population, papers completely dominated by an older generation of immigrants, predominantly Italian & Irish surnames. In my town, we tried to document police harassment of immigrants through police blotters (arrests for "driving w/o license" -- our guys have x-ray vision!) but ACLU's lawyers told us that they editorial line of the papers was so blatantly racist that we couldn't prove it was the cops that were doing the discriminating.Study's good, I don't mean to contradict. It's just that we've got a crazy quilt, at least in my area. A perspective from New England: The trend has exceptions. I live in Greater Boston. Here we have some sanctuary cities, where the press is mostly relatively friendly (some exceptions in the letters) and some cities where anti-immigrant organizations have drawn the attention of SPLC, where the papers try to be balanced but are getting bombarded in letters and comments. I live in an in-between town: no sanctuary laws, 30% foreign-born population, papers completely dominated by an older generation of immigrants, predominantly Italian & Irish surnames. In my town, we tried to document police harassment of immigrants through police blotters (arrests for “driving w/o license” — our guys have x-ray vision!) but ACLU’s lawyers told us that they editorial line of the papers was so blatantly racist that we couldn’t prove it was the cops that were doing the discriminating.Study’s good, I don’t mean to contradict. It’s just that we’ve got a crazy quilt, at least in my area.

]]> http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/immigration-coverage-negative-3632/#comment-431 Brian Lewis Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:42:44 +0000 http://blog.miller-mccune.com.s72010.gridserver.com/2009/06/17/why-is-immigration-coverage-often-so-negative/#comment-431 The geographic trend the study identifies is fascinating. Perhaps one could infer that, at least when it comes to immigration, the press serves a cultivating function - shaping society into something approximating the actual, physical fence that some would have line the borders. No doubt the media-cultivated one is more effective. The geographic trend the study identifies is fascinating. Perhaps one could infer that, at least when it comes to immigration, the press serves a cultivating function – shaping society into something approximating the actual, physical fence that some would have line the borders. No doubt the media-cultivated one is more effective.

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