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Experts: Trump, Ramos confrontation shouldn’t be a surprise
DAVID BAUDER impossible to imagine any
of the American television
Associated Press anchors doing the same
thing to Donald Trump or
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald any other serious candi-
date,” he said.
Trump’s onscreen confron- Most Spanish-language
journalists understand that
tation with Univision’s Jorge Ramos was operating
within an advocacy tradi-
Ramos on Tuesday over tion that does not negate
his role as a reporter, said
the Republican presiden- Sallie Hughes, a University
of Miami journalism profes-
tial candidate’s immigra- sor with the school’s Latin
American Studies program.
tion plan should only be a Ramos also takes seriously
his role as speaking for
surprise to those who don’t American Latinos. During
the 2012 campaign, he
know Ramos. penned open letters to the
Republican and Demo-
The 57-year-old news an-
cratic parties bluntly outlin-
chor has a history of sharp-
ing where they stood with
ly questioning politicians
the Latino community. He’s
and not hiding his opin-
had testy exchanges with
ions. Days before a secu-
President Barack Obama,
rity guard forced Ramos
at one point seeming to
out of Trump’s Iowa news
anger the president by
conference on Tuesday
telling him that he’s been
— he was later let back
called the “deporter-in-
in and continued a con-
chief” by some in the Latin
tentious exchange — he
community.
had denounced Trump on Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, asks Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump a question about his immigration proposal during a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 25, “As a journalist you have
CNN. Ramos said the immi- 2015, in Dubuque, Iowa.
to take a stand,” Ramos
gration issue “is personal” (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
told ABC’s “Good Morning
and when Trump voices
America” on Wednesday.
his views that include mass
“I think the best journalism
deportations and revoking came to the United States him very quickly,” Trump Outside of the news con-
as a young journalist when said on NBC’s “Today” ference before he was happens when you take a
the citizenship of children the Mexican government show. “This man gets up let back in, Ramos was
censored one of his reports, and starts ranting and rav- approached by a man stand and when it comes
born in the U.S. to undoc- Ramos said that Trump’s ing and screaming, and wearing a Trump badge to racism, discrimination,
immigration plan was full honestly being very disre- who told him he was “very corruption, public life, dic-
umented parents, “he’s of “empty promises. What spectful to all the other re- rude,” according to a vid- tatorship or human rights,
he’s trying to sell the Ameri- porters.” eo clip released by Univi- as journalists we are not
talking about me” and all can public simply doesn’t For many Americans sion. only required but forced to
work. It’s impossible,” he schooled in a tradition of “Get out of my country,” take a stand and clearly,
the other American Latinos told CNN. objective journalism, the the man said. “Get out.” when Mr. Trump is talking
Univision said Ramos had idea of a reporter coming Ramos quietly reminded about immigration in an
born in another country. earlier requested an inter- into the situation with such him, “I’m a U.S. citizen, too.” extreme way, we have to
view with Trump, which the a clear point of view is both There are different stan- confront him and I think
Ramos is generally consid- candidate rejected before unusual and off-putting. dards regarding journalistic that’s what I did.”q
distributing Ramos’ cell “There’s no question that objectivity in countries out-
ered the most influential phone number on social he’s important and that he side of the United States,
media. So the Miami-based has a lot of influence, but I particularly in Latin Amer-
television journalist among Ramos traveled to Iowa for think that people now have ica, said Mark Feldstein, a
the news conference. sort of recognized that he’s veteran TV newsman and
Latinos living in the Unit- Trump on Wednesday said more of an advocate than now a journalism professor
that Ramos was “totally out a journalist,” said Sean at the University of Mary-
ed States. He and Maria of line” in the news confer- Spicer, communications land. While there is more
ence. director for the Republican advocacy in American
Elena Salinas co-anchor “I would have gotten to National Committee. journalism now, too, “it’s
a weeknight newscast on
Univision, the country’s
most-watched Spanish-
language network. A syn-
dicated columnist, he also
hosts a Sunday morning
political panel for Univision
and a weekly newsmaga-
zine on Fusion, an English-
language network geared
to Latinos.
A Mexican native who
