COMMENTARY: IT'S A BIG DEAL

public need has meant minimal to no coverage because maybe that’s what their key demographic groups (the ones they sell ads based on) expect of them?

Or perhaps it’s a result of these TV stations and newspaper having no Hispanic reporters or writers who might be better in touch with the whole community or can at least understand or know what’s going on in the Hispanic community?

To my knowledge, there is no Hispanic or African American on air reporters at the 4 Lubbock TV stations. I do mean beat reporters and not news anchors.

At the AJ? Who knows, but based on my experience during my 9 years there; I doubt that there is a Hispanic reporter assigned to cover the Hispanic community specifically. As there is at other newspapers.



Or perhaps to do anything more with this story, would risk those who do so, being labeled as pandering to minorities; or heaven forbid “Mexicans”?



Abel Cruz is a contributing writer to El Editor and www.eleditor.com