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On the Media

Breaking Bad in Spanish, the "Hispanic Walter Cronkite", and More

On the Media

WNYC Studios

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0

This is on the media, on the rise of Latino media, in Spanish and in English.

0:07.1

If there's 55 million Spanish speakers in the United States, then the United States is part of Latin America, period.

0:14.6

Granted, immigration reform is a huge topic. It's really important. It needs to get solved, but at the same time, we're so much more than that.

0:22.8

You grew up on tacos, correct?

0:24.5

She's Colombia.

0:26.3

Oh, I didn't know.

0:27.0

I'm Nicaraguan.

0:27.9

Okay.

0:29.8

We know the price of Arepas in Venezuela, the result of the last soccer game between Chivas and America in Mexico,

0:38.3

who's running for the city council in Buenos Aires,

0:41.4

and for us, those are local needs.

0:43.7

If you want to survive in the future in this country,

0:46.1

you have to know no-m-a-b-b-k, which is an expression.

0:49.2

No-b-b-ha-what does that mean?

0:50.4

I mean, literally means do not suck.

0:53.4

And how and why the mainstream media often do.

0:59.9

This show was originally aired in July.

1:08.5

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:12.0

I'm Brooke Ladstone.

1:13.3

And I'm Bob Garfield.

1:15.1

I'm not going to lie, we don't talk much about Hispanic media.

1:19.0

And though we're devoting this hour to this sprawling and politically pivotal universe

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