Medios Entries
10 de Mayo, 2008
Obama at the Quad
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Hope, Obama, Power to the People
EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Mayo, 2008
John Edwards Endorses Obama
Categorized under Medios | Tags: blogs, John Edwards, Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Friday declined to make an endorsement in the Democratic presidential battle, but said Barack Obama could unite the party and win in November. In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, Edwards said Obama appears set to win the nomination.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Mayo, 2008
Oregon is Voting, Even as We Speak
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios | Tags: Eugene, Obama, Oregon, Voting
NEXT STOP, Oregon! And that's my beat. Here's a new MTV Choose or Lose blog wherein I lay down just the littlest bit of historia and shed some light on one of the factors that had an influence on how Oregon became the first state to switch entirely to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Mayo, 2008
Symbol and Essence: Part 4.5
Categorized under Blogando , Comida , Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: blogs, Cinco de Mayo, MainStreet.com
GRACIAS to Jessica Wakeman, who interviewed me yesterday for her Cinco de Mayo article at mainstreet.com. Thanks, Jessica, for doing just what you promised by putting some focus on certain points I hoped to stress. Even if that geography wasn't originally in your plan. What? My tacky chile pepper... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Abril, 2008
A Proper Context
Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Format, historia, Latino, Mexico
MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Wright Stuff?
Categorized under Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: GOP, Jeremiah Wright, Obama
HERE'S THE FUNNY THING: since Wright went on TV...actually, since only a day ago, I've personally seen two people begin searching for a connection to, more or less, the kind of church he speaks of and represents. Anecdotal sure. But it's just one day. Give it time. It's like... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Abril, 2008
Time to Lift the Rug (Again)
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: bush, Change, Clinton, Hope, hypocrisy, Obama, Oliver North, Ronald Reagan
When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 3]
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Eugene, MTV, Oregon
HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [3] continues our HRC four-part series, which features the Senator's appearance at Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read the comments of Tapper and Suarez and myself and probably many others, regarding this very appearance. If you're one of the chosen ones, you've even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Democrats, Eugene, MTV, Oregon
HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Will Disinform for Cash
Categorized under Medios | Tags: Bob Marley, Citizen Journalism, Power to the People
PARRY'S RIGHT, and he's been saying it for years. (And so have others.) The entrenched, trusted, mainstream media is useless, by and large. Despite the peppering of good journalists out there, and the occasional flare-up of integrity in the big picture, the Fourth Column has buckled and been injected with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Ruben Salazar Remembered
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Salud | Tags: Chicanos, El Movimiento, Hunter Thompson, Ruben Salazar, Salazar Park
RUBEN SALAZAR, a respected Mexican American journalist whose face and voice became important to El Movimiento in the 70s will be posthumously recognized on a stamp. Salazar was shot and killed while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March, which was organized by the Mexican American community mostly to protest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Abril, 2008
Absolut Reconquista Ad: Oh please let Absolut Reparations be next!
Categorized under Carmen D. , Español , Globalización , Historia , Humor , Medios | Tags: Absolut ad Mexico
Here’s the Absolut ad that first appeared in Mexico: It depicts the border between Mexico and the United States prior to the February 2, 1848 signing of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following Mexico's loss of the Mexican American War. The terms of that Treaty were changed by the United... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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5 de Abril, 2008
Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon
Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, Clinton, Eugene, MTV, Oregon, Street Team 08
COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Marzo, 2008
Brown Barbie Power!
Categorized under Cultura , Foto , Medios | Tags: I should tag this something, Race in Media
SOMEONE CALL BUCHANAN BARBIE!!! Because judging by a trip to the local Big Lots! store, the white Barbie Doll population is being overrun by teeming hordes of darkie dolls!!!! It was actually pretty cool to see. Things have changed a lot since the days I played with Barbies. Wait,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Marzo, 2008
Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Change, Negativity, Obama, Outtakes and Remakes, race
ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Marzo, 2008
Obama Comes to Oregon
Categorized under Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, MTV, Obama, Oregon
SAW OBAMA last night at "The Pit," as it's known here in Oregon. Eugene residents are very proud of their sports, it's a big sports town (check into the history of Nike in Eugene, while you're at it), and the arena where Obama spoke is a famed site for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Marzo, 2008
Horses in the Klieglight
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios , Race for '08 | Tags: blogs, Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Huffington Post, Jeremiah Wright, Obama
But if I could ask a question of the media figures who are regularly calling for Obama to reject Wright today, who urged Clinton to reject Geraldine Ferraro the day before and who demanded Obama reject Louis Farrakhan earlier last week, it would be this: what would satisfy you? What... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Marzo, 2008
Nezua Gets Good Ink [Register Guard writeup]
Categorized under Blogando , Medios | Tags: blogs, Citizen Journalism, Eugene, MTV, Oregon, the Unapologetic Mexican, Xolagrafik
WELL, as I told you before, the local paper did a writeup on yours truly, and though I carry the sting from reporters with agendas to this day (after a couple disappointing lessons that came my way via interviews I gave in the past on various things), I was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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With Support Like That
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama, SNL
SO TELL ME. How does having a black man who supports Obama coming on SNL and calling Tiny Fey "bitch" in response to her statement "bitch is the new black" (he responded "black is the new president, bitch") "support Obama"? Hmm? Because I can't imagine the Clinton team being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Marzo, 2008
Lucky Boy
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Format, Obama, Race
An Obama aide has struck back at the Clinton campaign over comments made last week by Geraldine Ferraro, calling them “outrageous and offensive.” Susan Rice, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, was responding to Ms. Ferraro’s remarks on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Ms. Ferraro told a Los Angeles newspaper that the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Faceless Females, Pt. 473
Categorized under Foto , Medios | Tags: Race in Media
PERHAPS I'M BEING oversensitive to notice different media treatment of white women and brown women (and here, I mean "brown-skinned" and not just "brown" metaphorically) while walking through the women's underwear section of a store (not a usual pastime, no), and I know we've come a long way in that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Marzo, 2008
Whoops, Wrong Number!
Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Obama
IT'S JUST kind of funny. The so-called "red-phone ad" was played all over the country and helped turn the tide for Hillary Clinton leading up to her big win in Ohio. The ad shows a sleeping child and asks voters who they would want to see answering a 3 a.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Marzo, 2008
Who Would Yanni Bomb?
Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: John McCain, YouTube
HAVE YOU EVER put on some new agey music, sat back and thought about deep azure skies and exactly how you might sear that blue stretch of beauty into a turmoiled, agent-orange streaked, phosphorus misted, IED-spattered eternal war-o-rama-scape? Rage McCain sure has. And then he set it to video! Snuggle... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Febrero, 2008
Microsoft, the Anti-Hispanic (Mexican) Company!
Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Medios | Tags: Language, Microsoft, putos, QuieroLatino
THIS LINK was sent to me by the people at quierolatino.com. Can't say I was surprised. But I was annoyed. When we started developing QuieroLatino.com as the exclusive online dating site for Latinos in the US, we created a website primarily in English but with Spanish terms and phrases incorporate... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Febrero, 2008
Reign of McCain
Categorized under Guerra , Humor , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Música , Violencia | Tags: John McCain, putos, war on terror, YouTube
YOU REMEMBER THIS? Here is the McCain version. Funnnny. In a scary kind of way!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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9 de Febrero, 2008
WGA Finalizes Tentative Deal
Categorized under Medios | Tags: Authors, Power to the People, WGA
The WGA has finalized its tentative agreement with the majors and will present details of the pact to members today in meetings in Los Angeles and New York. —WRITERS, PRODUCERS REACH TENTATIVE DEAL... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Enero, 2008
Strange Winters [mtv vlog 1-30-08]
Categorized under Artivism , Medios | Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Eugene, Film, MTV, Oregon, Vlog
THIS WEEK in Eugene, Oregon and the surrounding areas, there has been a lot of talk about the weather. But not in a mundane fashion, such as when you are having your gas pumped (remember that 'round here, you cannot pump your own gas, it is all full serve!) and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Enero, 2008
Univision, Now With Extra Clinton Bias!
Categorized under Medios | Tags: Clinton
Univision, the largest Spanish-language television network, was recently bought out by a private equity consortium that includes billionaire Haim Saban. Saban is a close friend of the Clintons, and a particularly zealous Hillary fundraiser. —Is Univision Slanted toward Hillary?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Enero, 2008
Target: Selling Ass and Mimicking Dying Institutions
Categorized under Blogando , Hipnotismo , Medios , Sexismo | Tags: blogs, Citizen Journalism, misogyny, Street Team 08, Target
Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant. That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on children. Early this month, the blog’s founder, Amy Jussel, called Target, complaining about a new advertising campaign that depicted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Enero, 2008
In Which Nezua Talks Shit About the FCC
Categorized under Medios | Tags: FCC, hypocrisy, putos
IT'S "BATTLES" LIKE THIS, juxtaposed with all the corporate and government crime to which we turn a blind eye, that really make me wonder about morality and sanity in this nation of ours: The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed a $1.43 million indecency fine against ABC television stations for a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Enero, 2008
Turning to Sawdust From the Top Down
Categorized under Ciencia , Hipnotismo , Medios , Once de Septiembre | Tags: hype, September 11
I LOVE IT when scientists discuss the events of 9/11. Though I had to smile at part of the intro to Pt II: remember when we were outraged when it first became clear that Saddam didn't actually have any connection to 9/11? Wow. It makes you long for innocence.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Enero, 2008
Official MTV News Intro to Street Team 08
Categorized under MTV Camp , Medios | Tags: arte, Choose or Lose 08, Film, MTV, Street Team 08, YouTube
I NEVER POSTED the official MTV News intro on the Street Team 08, tho I meant to. Behind the cut is the first vid MTV News did on the Street Team, in typical glitzy quick-cut MTV fashion. You can see me for a moment in one wide shot. That was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Enero, 2008
Because Dreaming is Not Enough (Vlog 1-23-08)
Categorized under Artivism , Medios | Tags: Change, Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Film, Jr., Martin Luther King, MLK, MTV, Oregon, racism, Street Team 08
CLICK the pic to the left to find yourself magically transported to a page hosting my latest MTV Street Team '08 video, which was shot in Eugene, Oregon at a Martin Luther King Jr rally and march on January 21, 2008. All shooting, editing and sleeplessness by Nezua.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Enero, 2008
VOTE for Pedro from Pluto!
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios | Tags: ALIENZ, hype, Immigration, Ronald Reagan
KEEP MOVING, NOTHING TO SEE HERE. Just another article pretending to tell NEWS while sticking in little anti-Latino or anti-migrant jabs. This is part of what made me laugh just a tiny bit to myself during all the AP lecture/training in nyc recently. We were hearing of all the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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3 de Enero, 2008
The Lying Tribe
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Kucinich
THOUGH AT HEART, when pressed, I must admit that I inevitably return to the Bukowski doctrine of political thought, it's always good to remember how much the US Presidential products are marketed and trumpeted...or not. Bill Richardson is a tested and proven leader. And it is not as if this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Diciembre, 2007
The Fable of Greebey Vather, Time Traveler Extraordinaire
Categorized under Frontera , Literatura , Medios | Tags: borders, Film, Hope, hypocrisy, Mexicans, Mexico, Outtakes and Remakes, Thompson
I see a screenplay blooming. Dealing with a favorite theme: time travel. You now think you'll steal this zeitgeisty gem from me, but you cannot because in the future, I have already finished it, and am mailing it to myself yesterday in a walnut sealed in Presidential earwax and pressurized... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Diciembre, 2007
Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!
Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Chronicles of Nezua , Medios , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: blogs, Change, Choose or Lose 08, Citizen Journalism, MTV, Oregon, the Unapologetic Mexican, Vlog
SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I'm sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Diciembre, 2007
The Masked Pundito
Categorized under Literatura , Medios | Tags: Authors, Mexico
WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE yours truly may be soon writing a weekly column in the Mexican newspaper [edited, maybe better to keep unnamed until finalized?]! Or "half" of it. It's a "head to head" type of thing, tho that sounds more confrontational than it actually is. It's more of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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