Media

Publisher’s Note: I thought long and hard about giving CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette more attention on this page, since quite frankly, I have grown tired of his boorish social media behavior and the content of his columns. But maybe that is part of his master plan: to use his platform to become the Latino Rush […]

When approached today by reporters at an event in Puerto Rico, WAPA-TV president Joe Ramos addressed the recent controversy surrounding “SuperXclusivo,” his network’s top-rated show, and La Comay, the show’s puppet host played by actor Kobbo Santarrosa. Ramos, who will not comment to this outlet after several interview requests were made through WAPA’s established procedures, […]

You would think that Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV would try to avoid even more controversy as it looks for a way to resolve the BoicotLaComay mess. Apparently, according to Otro20Pesos.com, WAPA now has another problem on its hand. Tonight the blog reported that Puerto Rico hip hop star Lisa M was kicked out of the network […]

Today HuffPost Live (video here) discussed the recent developments surrounding the “SuperXclusivo” controversy and boycott movement against Puerto Rico’s top-rated show and its puppet host, La Comay. The segment covered a lot of issues including the story the Rebels broke yesterday and later reported by our founder for NBC Latino about homophonic emails sent by the show. […]

UPDATE, 9:00 PM EST: WAPA confirmed earlier today that the emails were authentic. They also issued a statement that can be read here. Yesterday we received the following email communication from someone who submitted a initial comment to WAPA-TV’s “SuperXClusivo” show.  The thread contains a very strange defense of the show that we felt is […]

  This December 21 we plan to just not be online, because it is getting ridiculous already. Before we continue with this post, we just need to say the following, and say it kind of loudly: the world is not coming to an end this Friday. But that isn’t stopping brands from contaminating this message […]

Is #BoicotLaComay working? Earlier today, Glenn Santana, the TV reporter for Puerto Rico’s Primera Hora, tweeted the latest television ratings for the 6pm-7pm slot:   Looks like “SuperXclusivo” and La Comay just got some more bad news, besides dramatic losses in ad revenues. Santana’s information contradicts yesterday’s claim from WAPA TV that the show’s ratings […]

  We guess this is what happens when you get calls from The New York Times. In yesterday’s Times, Joe Ramos, President of Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV and WAPA América, admitted that he had considered canceling the “SuperXclusivo” show with puppet host La Comay in response to a very public boycott that has led to major brands […]

  The recent boycott against WAPA-TV’s “SuperXclusivo” and the controversy surrounding Puerto Rico’s top-rated show made the December 16 edition of The New York Times, and the Times story confirmed that WAPA’s president has considered canceling the show. After summarizing the events surrounding the origins of the boycott and the death of pubicist José Enrique […]

After running a story this morning about The Daily Show not mentioning the current boycott of WAPA-TV’s “SuperXclusivo” program (the top-rated show in Puerto Rico) during a segment with Wyatt Cenac, we reached out to Comedy Central for comment. We requested to see if someone would speak to the segment, which shows Cenac interviewing La […]

By now most of us are aware that Jenni Rivera passed away recently. The topic of her untimely death is all over the social media outlets and it has been covered by most major news media publications.  Here’s the thing though: I never heard of her until this happened, and I didn’t know a thing about her until […]

We got this story from LatinoCommunicators as well as the great Richard Prince of Journal-isms, out of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. (And oh yeah, Soledad O'Brien.) According to Prince's post, meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired by ABC Shreveport affiliate KTBS because Lee "responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station's Facebook […]

In October, we ran a piece called "Now Ben Affleck Is Latino: Another Lost Opportunity for Hollywood." As we tried to stray away from the "we're offended" line that many of our critics tossed our way (because that was not the point of the piece, if people actually took the time to read it and not […]

In response to the recent controversy surrounding the Mexican costume image taken by the Chi Omega sorority chapter of Penn State, the National Association of Latino Fraternal National Organizations (NALFO) released the following statement yesterday:

Censorship. In the Internet age, it is a word that is tossed about a lot and mostly misinterpreted. To give this column some context, let's actually read from the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or […]

It is Day 4 since #BoicotLaComay was launched in response to comments about dead publicist José Enrique Gómez that were made by "La Comay," the puppet host of Puerto Rico's highest-rated show, WAPA-TV's "SuperXclusivo." And the momentum to get the show off the air continues to grow. Here are just a few of the latest […]

Looks like Puerto Rico is waking up after rallying behind a social media campaign against WAPA's "SuperXClusivo" show, hosted by puppet called La Comay (portrayed by actor Kobbo Santarrosa). The incredibly popular show (seen both in Puerto Rico and in the US through WAPA América) sucks. It is a bastion of all that is bad […]

Yesterday the National Latino Media Council published its annual Television Network Report Cards and pretty much took FOX Network Groups by giving it an "overall 'F' in its diversity commitment and performance." A release shared with news outlets said the following about FOX:  For years, NLMC has highlighted FOX's lack of transparency in providing clear and complete information to […]

UPDATE, December 7, 2012: El Diario resintstated the column. This morning, a Google search of New York's El Diario column called "Un criminal con suerte," a scathing indictment of boxing legend Héctor "Macho" Camacho, shows that the original column is no longer on El Diario's website. When someone clicks on the El Diario link for […]

Tonight, MSNBC released the following statement regarding a Mexican Twinkie segment it aired on "The Cycle:" On Monday’s The Cycle, we aired a graphic during our reporting on the Hostess story that was apparently offensive to some viewers. We want to say that it was never the intention of MSNBC to offend any person or […]

Recently, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 ;wrote a very thought-provoking post called ;The Perils of “Latino” Marketing: Lessons Learned from the “Los IceHogs” Hockey Night. It wasn’t clear to some people why trying to appeal to the Hispanic community with a promotional poster of maracas, Corona, and Dora the Explorer can be problematic. So Julito explained […]