ABSTRACT
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting surveyed campaign coverage in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times from the beginning of 1994 until election day, November 8, 1994. Peace and Freedom, American Independent, and Libertarian candidates across the Los Angeles area received little mention in the Los Angeles Times. Left out was any mention of the harassment by border guards of legal immigrants and citizens of Latino descent, long documented by such organizations as the American Friends Service Committee’s Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project. While the salaries of managers and supervisors—who make up about one-fourth of the American work force—have climbed, real wages for the other 75 percent of US workers have fallen every year from 1987 to 1993 and were basically flat in 1994. The “other” side are immigrants, implying that the “US side” is the anti-immigration position.
