CNN-E Only Spanish Net To Cover PR Statehood Admission Bill #GreatAwakening
This week’s Republican-led bipartisan Puerto Rico statehood admission bill was basically ignored on all the leading Spanish-language television networks, except for...wait for it...CNN en Español.
The lack of coverage (unless you want to count Univision’s self-beclowning as serious coverage) of a bill that reverses a historic wrong and secures the civil rights of 3.4 million Americans amounts to yet another slight of the second-largest Hispanic origin population in the United States, and the only one entirely composed of U.S. citizens.
Watch as Resident Commissioner to the House of Representatives Jennifer González (R-PR) debunks the lazy myth that admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st State of the Union automatically means more liberal Democrats in Congress:
JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, HOST, DIRECTO USA: So, what happens now? What is the process? And there are 34 legislators that support it, but leadersh…
JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ, RESIDENT COMMISSIONER (R-PUERTO RICO): 38.
LOPEZ: Is it 38 already? Does leadership support it? Do you see any interest? Because many say that if Puerto Rico were to become a state, it would have more representation in the House than do many states. They’d have two senators, becoming a powerhouse that many say could, would be majority Democrat.
GONZÁLEZ: Well, that’s what many people think, what happens is that they don’t know that we Latinos, in Puerto Rico’s case, there are many very conservative values and Puerto Rico would be a place where both national parties would have to compete. Now- I’m a Republican, and I was the official who got the most votes in the past election. So we’re not necessarily going to be Democrats. We’ve seen that alternate as the years pass, and obviously, it basically depends on the candidate.
Kudos to CNN en Español, which in recent years has distinguished itself as the only national Spanish-language network that consistently covers the initiatives of Puerto Rico's top elected leaders, as in this case with its interview of Resident Commissioner González on the day she introduced the historic bill, and pulled off majority Republican sponsorship of the measure, belying conventional wisdom (which is usually neither conventional nor wise). This is in stark contrast to major networks such as Univision and Telemundo, which gave infinitely more coverage to a convicted domestic terrorist than to this bill.
It should be noted that the liberal English-language networks also ignored the bill, and seem to only have room for Puerto Rico coverage when the radical separatist mayor of San Juan gets on her soapbox, or when it otherwise fits into its preferred anti-Trump narratives. Otherwise, hard pass. We see you.
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