Comments on: What if we are part of the voiceless community? http://www.ojr.org/p1987/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=p1987 Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: 70.143.76.179 http://www.ojr.org/p1987/#comment-2703 70.143.76.179 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:58:57 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1987#comment-2703 Robert, thank you so much for your thoughtful column. Sadly, I believe this immigration debate has gotten so ugly that journalist too are taking sides — whether they want to acknowledge it or not. There are journalists out there who want to invalidate a person’s achievements based on legal status. For them, once a person is “illegal” nothing that they do matters. And they pretend to be “objective” in the discussion, which is the saddest part of it all.

I would really like to see like minded journalist push for the removal of the term “illegal” from the newsroom. Words are powerful, and until this debate becomes more civil, eliminates all pejorative terms from the lingo, little is going to get done. We have been led to believe that “illegal” is neutral, when in reality, it’s become an insult that’s tolerated and bandied about to further criminalize a group of people. We don’t write “spic” or, God-forbid, the “n” word. Why then, do we tolerate a word many consider offensive?

]]> By: 173.164.237.186 http://www.ojr.org/p1987/#comment-2702 173.164.237.186 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:12:26 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1987#comment-2702 Beautifully put, Robert. Thanks for reminding us that the “other” is within “us.”

]]> By: Pilar Marrero http://www.ojr.org/p1987/#comment-2701 Pilar Marrero Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:06:14 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1987#comment-2701 This is an outstanding column and i agree with your take on this. Latino journalists and media are often called into question for not being “objective”. I wonder if other journalists or media don

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