The Media And The Issue Of Illegal Immigration - 777 Words

Paper #1: Discuss how the different media outlets frame the issue of illegal immigration? It is commonly known that media coverage of anything controversial can be faulty, and biased. ABC News and CCN News could cover the same story, in different ways. This is amplified in cases that affect different audiences (as in age, race, financial class), because certain stations are aimed towards a certain audience. A great example of this is FOX and FOX Latino. The two stations, though sister stations, have very different approaches on certain topics, one being illegal immigration. FOX tends to be very biased, while FOX Latino gives direct facts. Most people would assume that FOX and FOX Latino, sister stations, would have rather similar†¦show more content†¦They covered the controversy very differently. FOX Latino has an audience that is concerned about this problem of illegal immigration, and the problems the immigrants themselves are having. This is obvious by looking at the articles they have. These articles and news clips gives statistics of the hardships that the immigrants are facing, and discuss solutions to said difficulties. For example, On September 22nd, 2015 they posted an article titled Number of immigrant families, children arrested at border jumps more than 50%. Unlike some of their previous articles (IE - What Happens to US-Born Kids of Deported Undocumented Immigrants?) which was very involved and emotional, this one is rather detached. However, it does discuss theories on why this is a continuing problem, and why it changes throughout the year. FOX Latino is there to give information on illegal immigration, possible solutions, etc. They give the unbiased facts. FOX news has very different coverage on the subject. They are clearly fixated on discussing the problems that illegal immigration causes to them (middle class (white) America). For example, on September 14th, 2015 FOX reporter Kimberly Guilfoyle went viral for allegedly comparing immigrants to a brain tumor. In the next few days (September 16th, 2015) they publish an article Elusive crime wave data shows frightening toll of illegal immigrant criminals. This article was very negative towards the idea