Sacramento journo: Fox super-snubbed Latinos

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O say, could you see any Latinos on Super Sunday? Paul Gutierrez, a sports columnist for the Sacramento Bee newspaper, didn’t. And that was the problem, Gutierrez writes, with Fox’s six-minute pre-kickoff tribute to America and the Super Bowl.

For its ‘goose-bump-inducing’ homage to pigskin and patriotism, the columnist noted, Fox Sports ‘recruited the likes of Jim Brown, Peyton Manning, Don Shula and LaDainian Tomlinson to read that most sacred of American documents, the Declaration of Independence.’ But it didn’t invite any of the 44 million members of America’s biggest ‘minority’ group, Latinos.

Here’s the money quote from Gutierrez’s column: ‘At worst, Fox Sports assumed undesirable characteristics of its heavily right-leaning brother Fox News, whose -– ahem -– fair and balanced act never misses an opportunity to push that hot-button topic of immigration.’

Did Fox goof by not including Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo or some other Latino among its readers? As we like to say around here, La Plaza reports. You decide.

-- Reed Johnson in Mexico City