NBC: Jorge Ramos ‘The Walter Cronkite of Latino America’

Kyle Drennen | August 26, 2015
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At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer described how Univision anchor Jorge Ramos was “kicked out of a Donald Trump news conference” on Tuesday and wondered: “Can Trump’s confrontational style carry him all the way to the White House or will it wear thin with voters?”

In a report that followed moments later, correspondent Peter Alexander touted the incident as “quite the spectacle,” telling viewers: “You decide, was Trump was out of line? Was the anchorman grandstanding?” Alexander then proclaimed: “To be clear, Jorge Ramos is the most powerful newsman in Spanish-language TV. He's often called the Walter Cronkite of Latino America.”

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