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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Transcription and Semiotic Conventions | |
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| Prologue: Studying the Network News Coverage on Latinos | |
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| What US Latino Stories Make the Network News? | |
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| Semiotic Analyses of Network News Stories about Latinos | |
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| Inside-the-Beltway Stories | |
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| Jos� Padiila: Citizen Terrorist or Simply Terrorist? | |
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| CNN News Brief, #2 | |
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| CBS News Report, #60 | |
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| Latinos in the White House | |
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| ABC: Alberto Gonzales Nominated Attorney General, #100 | |
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| CNN: Carlos Gutierrez Nominated Commerce Secretary, #112 | |
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| Presidential Campaign for Latino Voters | |
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| ABC: Speaking Spanish Garners Latino Votes, #10 | |
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| NBC: Rejecting a Latino Voter Myth, #82 | |
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| NBC: Latino Voters in Western States, #90 | |
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| ABC: Candidates Appear on S�bado Gigante, #97 | |
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| News Briefs and Feature Stories | |
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| Economic Impact of Latinos | |
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| NBC News Brief on Jobs, #27 | |
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| Health of Latinos | |
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| CBS News Brief on Strokes, #80 | |
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| CBS Investigative Report: Hospitals Price-Gouging Latinos, #47 | |
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| Politics of Entertainment | |
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| ABC: Visas Denied to Cuban Musicians, #13 | |
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| Multiple News Briefs on Defecting Cuban Dancers | |
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| CBS: "A Day without a Mexican," #49 | |
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| CBS: Reality Show �Gana la Verde!, #87 | |
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| Latinos and Public Education | |
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| CBS: Increasingly Segregated Schools, #51 | |
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| NBC/Telemundo: DREAM Act Students, #57 | |
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| Iraq War Latino Soldiers | |
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| CNN: Death of a Green Card Soldier, #33 | |
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| ABC: Sergeant Rafael Peralta, #109 | |
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| Latinos in Sports | |
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| ABC: NFL Marketing to Latinos, #9 | |
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| Baseballs A-Rod, #16, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 | |
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| NBC: Olympic Triple Jumper Becomes Iconic Immigrant, #85 | |
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| News Stories about Caribbean Immigrants | |
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| Cuban Migrants as Refugees | |
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| ABC and CBS News Briefs about Cubans Floating on a Buick, #11, #12 | |
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| ABC News Brief about Mexican Pi�ata Girl, #105 | |
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| ABC and CBS News Briefs on Cubans Migrating by Inner Tube, #34, #35 | |
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| Dominican Migrants as Victims | |
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| NBC and ABC News Briefs and NBC Report, #63, #81, #14 | |
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| Dominican Migrants as Criminals | |
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| ABC In-Depth Story, #74 | |
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| Immigration Policy Stories | |
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| Bush's Immigration Policy Initiative | |
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| ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, #3 | |
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| CNN NewsNight with Aaron Brown, #1 | |
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| NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, #4 | |
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| Phoenix "Drop Houses" | |
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| NBC News Brief, #15 | |
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| CNN News Brief, #24 | |
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| Second CNN News Brief, #28 | |
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| CNN Feature-Length Story, #30 | |
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| New Flood of Immigrants? | |
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| First NBC/Telemundo Report, #17 | |
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| Second NBC Report, #48 | |
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| Feature-Length News Stories about Mexican Immigrants | |
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| NBC: Mexican Migrants in the Aftermath of a Hurricane, #83 | |
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| NBC/Telemundo: Air Flight Repatriations, #89 | |
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| CBS: Contrasting Views of Arizona's Prop. 200, #117 | |
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| CBS: "Illegal Immigration-What Does It Mean to You?" #77 | |
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| ABC/BBC: "Dangerous Crossing," #116 | |
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| Conclusions: Semiotic Analyses of Network News Stories about Latinos | |
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| Humanist Theories and Cognitive Modeling of Television News Readings | |
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| A Cognitive Model to Incorporate Second-Order Signs | |
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| Adding Narrative to Semiotics: Myths That Underlie News Stories | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: Summary Table of 118 Television Network Evening News Stories about Latinos in 2004 | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |