Ah, the Arizona Republic outdoes itself yet again. "Anti-migrant initiative backed" is their report on a new poll showing overwhelming support for the Protect Arizona Now initiative.
First of all, PAN is not "anti-migrant." It simply attempts to limit illegal immigration. The opponents of the measure will certainly attempt to smear it as anti-migrant, and the Arizona Republic is just doing its part.
Also, considering that 74% of those polled support the initiative, the word "backed" is quite an understatement.
If the Arizona Republic were a supporter of PAN, they would, of course, highlight its broad support in the headline, instead they attempt to minimize it.
About 13% of the respondents were Hispanic, and they were evenly split on the initiative; the pollster (an ASU professor) expects 35% or 40% of Hispanics will support the initiative.
If you'd like to suggest that the Arizona Republic use the correct terminology and refrain from false and inflammatory headlines, click here to send various editors an email.
For a counterexample, the more balanced Douglas Daily Dispatch report "Poll shows voters would deny public assistance to illegals" never once uses "undocumented," and it has a far less inflammatory headline that doesn't attempt to downplay the poll results.
Immigration2003 · Thu, 07/22/2004 - 10:50 · · Importance: 1
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That is a typical journalistic ad hominem approach. In Europe, they say anti-foreigner rather than anti-immigrationist or pro-citizen. Anti-immigrant is even more common here, as a term for denigrating anti-immigrationism, as if there were only subjective animosities involved. Would they say anti-caucasian professors rally for welfare? Would they report that anti-white organizations are marching for racial quotas to be increased?
Posted by: John S Bolton at Jul 22, 2004 7:34 PM