MEDIA WATCH: Trump continues attack on Hispanics

A CONFRONTATION between Donald Trump and journalist Jorge Ramos of Univision, about the immigration plan of the aspiring Republican presidential candidate of the at a Trump conference that in Iowa, that led to the journalist being ejected is raising a storm in Latin American circles.

 The 57-year-old journalist is known for asking hard political questions and not hiding his views.
Ramos said the issue of immigration “is personal,” and that when Trump expressed views that include the mass deportation and revoking citizenship of US-born children of parents who are in the country without permission, “he is talking about me” and all the other Hispanic Americans born in another country.
On Fox News, Ramos said that “Donald Trump clearly did not like my questions and … he tried to silence me; and in this country you cannot do that. I’m an American citizen, and an immigrant, I’m a reporter, and I have the right in this country to ask any questions I want.”
Ramos, who was born in Mexico and moved to the United States as a young journalist when the Mexican government censored one of his works, said that Trump’s immigration plan is full of “empty promises”.
“What he is trying to sell the American public simply does not work; it is impossible,” he told CNN.
Randy Falco, executive manager and president of Univision, issued a statement the day after the incident qualifying the way Trump treated to Ramos as “despicable”.
“Jorge Ramos is one of the most professional, dedicated and respected journalists that I have seen or with whom I have worked in my 40 years in the media” said Falco.
“He always makes hard questions to candidates and elected officials, regardless of the party or issue. Mr. Trump showed total disregard for him and for the countless Hispanics Jorge seeks to represent”.
Univision said that Ramos had previously requested an interview with Trump, which the candidate rejected before publishing the Ramos cell phone number in social media.
So Ramos, based in Miami, traveled to Iowa to attend the conference. Trump said on Wednesday that Ramos was “totally out of tune” in the press conference.
“This man stands up and begins to rant and shout, being, honestly, very disrespectful with the other reporters”, Trump said on the Today show on NBC.
“For many Americans formed in a tradition of objective journalism, the idea of a reporter going into the situation with a very clear point of view is both unusual and unpleasant.
“No doubt he is important and has great influence, but I think people now recognize somehow he is an advocate rather a journalist”, said Sean Spicer, communications director of the Republican National Committee.
Outside the press conference, before being allowed to return, a man with a Trump badge approached Ramos and said according to a video released by Univision. “Get out of my country”
Ramos calmly replied, “I am also a citizen of the United States”.
There are different standards of journalistic objectivity outside the United States, particularly in Latin America, said Mark Feldstein, a veteran TV journalist who now teaches journalism at the University of Maryland.
Most Spanish-speaking journalists understand that Ramos was conducted within the defending tradition that does not deny his role as a reporter, said Sallie Hughes, a professor of journalism at the Latin American Studies program at the University of Miami.