The National Hispanic Media Coalition wanted to asses hoe
people around the world view Hispanic be due to their media portrayals. They
surveyed non-Latinos about their news and media content and their opinions on
Latinos. They did another survey on Latino
viewers and their perception of Latinos. The media stereotypes have cast a
negative light ton Latinos.
The surveys showed that the things people believe to be true
about Latinos steam from the media and are usually negative. Non-Latino views
on Latinos all depend on what channel they watch. Conservative talk radios such as Fox News
cast negative lights on Latinos, which leads to more negative opinions on
Latinos. Even the people that want to
have an open mind about Latinos are prone to cast a negative light on this
nationality because of negative entertainment or news media narratives.
“Negative portrayals of
Latinos and immigrants are pervasive in news and entertainment media.
Consequently, non-Latinos commonly believe many negative stereotypes about
these groups are true.”
“Specifically, non-Latinos
report seeing Latinos in stereotypically negative or subordinate roles
(gardeners, maids, dropouts, and criminals) most often in television and film.”
Although I do believe that
the false and negative portrayal of Hispanics needs to decrease to a minimum on
fake film and television shows, it should stop on talk shows. Truth of the
matter is that people believe what they hear, and they believe what they hear
even more son on a realistic show. The negative view that Hispanics are getting
should not be coming from the fake media, let alone talk shows. Categorizing
nationalities into good or bad is false and rude.
The fact that peoples views
are stronger when Latinos are portrayed on television rather than film didn’t
make sense to me at first but after I gave it some thought I understood why.
Seeing a Hispanic antagonist on one movie is detrimental to the nationality is
not as impacting as seeing the same Hispanic person perform despicable acts throughout
a show.
Since shows have more of an
impact, maybe negative Hispanic views should be limited on television should be
limited while positive ones are encouraged. This way, the media industry will
work to improve Latinos collective image.