By His Own Criteria and Rotten Record in 2016, Jorge Ramos Doesn't Deserve A Journalism Award

MRC Latino | April 26, 2017
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JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Look, as journalists, we made many mistakes before the election.  We didn’t see it coming.  We made a mistake.  I made a mistake. I thought that, for instance, that Latinos could define an election.  That was not the case.  

I said many times that no one can make it to the White House without the Latino vote, and guess what happened?  Donald Trump made it to the White House without the Latino vote. So, yes, we were ahead of our time, and eventually that’s going to be the case, but we didn’t see it coming.  We believed the polls, and then we didn’t realize that many people were not talking to pollsters and talking to journalists.

And then we really didn’t want to listen to the “others,” as we defined them.  I work in a beautiful newsroom in Miami, but then there’s a small radio station that’s also in the same newsroom, and in that radio station in Miami, in Spanish, every single morning I was listening to people saying, “I’m going to vote for Donald Trump.  I don’t care what other Latinos are saying.  I’m going to vote for Donald Trump.”  

We didn’t see that 29 percent of Latinos were going to vote for him.  We didn’t see the resentment that was growing in the white non-Hispanic population in other areas, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.  We didn’t see it.  So, as journalists, we’re supposed to report reality as it is, but we were not seeing reality.  So I think we have to admit first that we have to be much more open to listening to other groups, and to other people

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