In his response last week, in this Shoptalk space, to my Feb. 28 column, “How to Cover Hispanic America—and Why,” David Paulin takes issue with my contention that the nation’s newsrooms need to hire more Hispanic reporters to cover the burgeoning Hispanic population. He questions whether there is a color and culture barrier in 2006 and describes some of Miami’s Hispanics as “having grown up in an insular Hispanic environment” and lacking the confidence to “go out and interact with milieus and ...
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