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Channel 8 anchor in story on trend (Newscasters changing from Anglo to ethnic names)
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 1-27-06 | Norm Clarke

Posted on 01/27/2006 7:19:40 AM PST by Nevadan

KLAS-TV, Channel 8's new anchor, Denise Valdez, was included in a 1996 Los Angeles Times story about a trend among newscasters who changed from Anglo to ethnic names to take advantage of federal affirmative-action rules designed to benefit minorities.

The practice was questioned, the Times said, by news professionals and minority activists, "who argue that it cheapens the concept of affirmative action and raises troubling issues of journalistic ethics."

Valdez, who worked in San Antonio and Dallas before going to KNBC in Los Angeles, acknowledged to the Times that she had changed her last name for professional reasons, saying it was "advantageous in this business."

She said she considers herself part Latina, and "I'm sure I'm one of many people who have done it." She added that it was "not something I want to broadcast to the public."

Valdez, who fills the vacancy left by the death of Polly Gonzalez in a traffic accident, will co-anchor the noon broadcast with Gary Waddell and the 4:30 p.m. newscast with Dave Courvoisier beginning Monday.

Bob Stoldal, vice president of news at KLAS, did not return calls for comment by deadline.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; hispanics; namechange; newscasters; workplace
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator

To: Javelina

I'm a little surprised that Jack Abramoff didn't change his name. What was he thinking?


62 posted on 01/27/2006 8:31:58 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (Chuck Cooperstein is a tool.)
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To: Javelina

Ahahah - I wouldn't want to be a weiner either ;)


63 posted on 01/27/2006 8:35:13 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: Javelina
I don't see any problem with pronouncing Spanish words correctly, particularly your name.

I agree up to a point. How a name is pronounced should be up to the name's owner by all means. However, I find it irritating when people are speaking in English and they go out of their way to pronounce, say, "Nicaragua" the way the natives do. No one says "Pa-REE" instead of "PAIR-is" when they're talking in English about the capital of France, nor do we expect two, say, Argentines walking down the streets of Buenos Aires speaking in Spanish about Texas to pronounce "Houston" the way the locals do.

There is a certain show-offy political correctness among some wherein they try to pronounce foreign names, especially place names, the way they think foreigners themselves do. Like all political correctness, I find it annoying.

64 posted on 01/27/2006 8:36:11 AM PST by untenured (http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
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To: MediaMole
Is she another one of those reporters who speaks with perfect, accent-free, English until she gets to her name, which she pronounces with an exaggerated accent?

LOL! Yep. Those are annoying beyond comprehension.

65 posted on 01/27/2006 8:38:50 AM PST by Skooz (Modesty hides my thighs in her wings)
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To: Mighty Eighth
Thanks for that factual information. I will be removing Snopes from my book marks, thus saving valuable RAM, and conferring with you in the future...
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66 posted on 01/27/2006 8:43:11 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Javelina
I think the point the other poster was making is that one day, in the not too distant future, we will wake up and look outside to discover we live in a barrio and our children will have to learn Spanish to go to school.

No one is suggestion that Latinos are a cancer. Just that our culture is slowly evaporating before our eyes.

67 posted on 01/27/2006 8:45:03 AM PST by Skooz (Modesty hides my thighs in her wings)
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To: devane617
Oh the HORROR!! That small dot of breast cancer is no reason to complain! Get it???

So latinos are a cancer on America? Man, you have a serious lack of a filter between your brain and some of the stuff you post. How many posts of yours are going to have to be pulled before you "get it?"
70 posted on 01/27/2006 8:58:53 AM PST by mysterio
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To: Skooz

Simply having a neighborhood full of Hispanics does not a barrio make. Some of us actually have managed to learn English, even, in the last 300 years our families have been here.


71 posted on 01/27/2006 9:19:00 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (Chuck Cooperstein is a tool.)
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To: hispanarepublicana
Simply having a neighborhood full of Hispanics does not a barrio make.

True.

Some of us actually have managed to learn English, even, in the last 300 years our families have been here.

Ah. So you are Americans and your families have become part of the melting pot mosaic of America which has enriched our heritage and helped make America an interesting and vital place with a diverse and energetic culture.

I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home.

72 posted on 01/27/2006 9:31:26 AM PST by Skooz (Modesty hides my thighs in her wings)
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To: MediaMole
Is she another one of those reporters who speaks with perfect, accent-free, English until she gets to her name, which she pronounces with an exaggerated accent?

LOL, you've just described the most annoying nonsense practiced by half the staff of Channels 13 and 2 in Houston.

73 posted on 01/27/2006 9:35:15 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: devane617

You're an idiot.


74 posted on 01/27/2006 9:37:36 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: camle

I recall a scholarship that went to the "wrong" person because he was 18 and legally changed his name specifically for that purpose. The college sued him and lost. Hah! Roasted in their own PC juices.


75 posted on 01/27/2006 9:38:00 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: bwteim
Thanks...LOL...is this the same episode where Kramer, worried about procreating, switches to boxers, and then goes, ahem, without...and 'he out there and loving every minute of it?'

I really have to get a life...

76 posted on 01/27/2006 9:38:21 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (Pittsburgh is going to the SuperBowl...here we go!!!)
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To: Skooz

Total nonsense.


77 posted on 01/27/2006 9:39:38 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Skooz
I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home.

Except most Latin American (it is far more than just Mexico) immigrants aren't like that, they do assimilate. I grew up and have parents in one of the front lines of all this, Houston. Over the years their neighborhood went from almost all white to majority Hispanic, with otherwise very little change. Still a quiet, low-crime, middle-class neighborhood with the same well kept yards. Life is good.

78 posted on 01/27/2006 9:45:57 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: sandbar
Does being Scottish qualify under affirmative action?

Play the pipes past 10:00PM, and I'll show you some Affirmative re-Action, Sandy.

79 posted on 01/27/2006 9:47:39 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Perhaps Islam is not the 'High-Jacked Religion of Peace, but the Religion of High-Jackers)
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To: frankjr

I consider myself part Beagle. I'm suing the estate of Charles Schultz for patterning the character "Snoopy" after me without my authorization.


80 posted on 01/27/2006 9:48:09 AM PST by Skip Ripley
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