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Backlash Against Newsday for Hate Crime Coverage

November 22, 2008 – 3:13 pm

Long Island-based Newsday has been following the Marcelo Lucero murder in great detail, even sending a reporter to Ecuador to interview his friends and family. But some see coverage of this case, which involves a group of American youths who allegedly attacked and killed an immigrant, as too positive about immigration.
One Newsday reporter was thrown [...]

By Amy Crawford | Posted in Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears | Also tagged anti-immigration, Columbia, Ecuador, hate crimes, Immigration, Long Island, Marcelo Lucero, Minutemen, Patchogue, Steve Levy | Comments

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