Media

Add this one to the one of life’s guarantees. As Deadspin puts it, “It’s growing increasingly predictable that whenever the Spanish language appears on ESPN, angry responses are sure to come from viewers.” We have see this so many times now that we aren’t even surprised by it any more. It happened last year with Robbie Canó’s […]

Starting this past Friday, Oakland’s KTVU faced an online storm few have ever seen after reading and broadcasting racist Asian joke names in a report about the pilots who flew the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed July 6 in San Francisco. Even after the National Transportation Safety Board commented about the incident, many still felt […]

One of the most bizarre media stories ever got a bit more clearer after the National Transportation Safety Board said that a summer intern was the person who confirmed the racist Asian joke names that Oakland station KTVU was planning to broadcast in a report about the pilots on the Asiana flight that crashed in […]

UPDATE: NTSB adds more clarification to statement. Can the story of the now infamous racist Asian names broadcast on live TV get any crazier? Yes. After Oakland’s KTVU was slammed online for broadcasting the fake joke Asian names of pilots who were on the Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco last Saturday, causing the […]

UPDATE: NTSB adds more clarification to statement. UPDATE: The NTSB confirmed that a summer intern was the one who confirmed the joke names the station was asking about. Seriously? We got this one from 8Asians.com, and yes, it actually happened. Watch this report from Oakland’s KTVU: The station had to apologize after the break: SFGate.com […]

EDITOR’S NOTE; After a hiatus from published writing, Author Ivan Sanchez returns with his latest opinion piece. Welcome back, Ivan. Several months back I put the pen down and told myself I wasn’t going to write anymore freelance articles. The reasoning behind my decision was simple. Media, especially social media now moves so fast that […]

Now that the George Zimmerman trial is with the jury for deliberations, the world anxiously awaits the verdict of one of the most publicized trials in this history of the United States (at least it felt that way due to social media). And guess what narrative has come back? The whole “White Hispanic” thing, which […]

After the story of a Target manager handbook providing bizarre multicultural tips about Latinos went viral on the Internet, the company issued a statement to The Huffington Post. Here is what Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder shared with the HuffPost: It is never Target’s intent to offend our team members or guests and we apologize. The […]

Responding to growing community criticism about the placement of a prominent Goya logo at the base of the new Roberto Clemente statue at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx, the company’s public relations director defended Goya’s decision, saying that Clemente’s own son told him to not do anything to change the logo. Rafael Toro […]

Fireworks and a barbeque on the 4th of July are as American as it gets (ok, maybe you’ll have to add an apple pie, but still). And while the celebrations are always fun, what is left behind afterwards is anything but. I was reminded of this by Raul Colon’s blog post yesterday on the trashy […]

Two stories out of Latin America got our attention this week. The first one comes from Costa Rica via TicoTimes: Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a measure – by accident – that could legalize same-sex civil unions as part of a larger bill, lawmakers noted on Tuesday. Conservative lawmakers voted for the bill’s […]

Looks like a movie called “VIEQUES” is in the works, as the following casting announcement states: Tara Thomas Agency and Marlo Films is at it again! Tara Thomas has teamed up with Angelo Lopez, Michael Diesel and Tuffy Questrell to make this the movie of 2014. This time with Vieques whose casting is currently on […]

Earlier today, we heard back from a GOYA Foods public relations employee informing us how the company will correct a factual error on the base of the new Roberto Clemente statue at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx, but has yet to decide what to do with the large GOYA logo that also appears […]

Yesterday Latino Rebels reached out to Rafael Toro, head of public relations at GOYA Foods to discuss a factual error on the base of the new Roberto Clemente statue at a state park in the Bronx, as well as reaction about the placement of a GOYA logo at the bottom of the statue. A GOYA […]

We spoke to GOYA today. Here is the latest. Yesterday we wrote about whether the placement of a large GOYA Foods logo was appropriate on the base of a new Roberto Clemente statue unveiled last week in a New York state park in the Bronx. The initial social media reaction from New Yorkers of Puerto […]

Read the latest here. This week, a statue of the great Roberto Clemente was unveiled in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. The statue will now be a permanent fixture of Roberto Clemente State Park. Without a doubt, it was a proud day for the millions of people who have always loved and admired […]

The day after Marc Cherry’s “Devious Maids” premiered on Lifetime to tepid ratings and a slew of controversy, Chicago’s Gozamos initiated a #NotDeviousMaids campaign, that would “celebrate famous and everyday Latinas like you. We will honor our accomplishments and give facts about who Latinas are and how we’re impacting this world. We’re here to tell […]

In case you missed it this morning, HuffPost Live covered the “Devious Maids” debate. It got kind of tense at times, but the debate was fascinating. Here is the segment info and the guests who participated (including Latino Rebels contributor Tanisha Love Ramirez) The new Lifetime drama, ‘Devious Maids,’ focuses on five Latina maids working for […]

As it begins to ramp up the launch of its U.S. news channel, Al Jazeera America will be hosting a unique #OpenEditorial Google+ hangout this Friday June 28 at noon EST. The purpose of the hangout is simple: “Your stories. Your voice. Al Jazeera America wants to know which stories you think the national media […]

When you defend a show, you have to defend it all the way, and no one is questioning Eva Longoria’s intent to keep defending “Devious Maids,” which premiered Sunday to mixed reviews (our own review here) and sluggish ratings. You can say what you want, but you have to admit that the public relations machine […]

Of course I was going to watch it. Even though I had seen some parts of the pilot and cringed, I was definitely going to watch the premiere of the Marc Cherry/Eva Longoria much-discussed much-maligned much-defended “Devious Maids” show. Why wouldn’t I watch it, since one of the criticisms we received from supporters of the […]