[Nevadan]

The LA Times article mentioned in the article may be read at: http://www.tloffman.com/name.txt

[timsbella]

Changing names like Jerry Rivers to Geraldo Rivera?

[frankjr]

"Valdez, who fills the vacancy left by the death of Polly Gonzalez in a traffic accident"

Accident? Hmmmmmm...

[faloi]

raises troubling issues of journalistic ethics

I didn't think journalists had ethics anymore.

[camle]

AFAIK the legal name of the protected category is "hispanic surname" NOT "hispanic". that's the loophole.

this name changing business has been going on for some time. I remember a lawsuit 20 years or so ago on this topic - the guy who changed his name won because the category was SURNAME.

[sandbar]

So I have a question. Does being Scottish qualify under affirmative action? Or is there a list of countries that Affirmative Action applies to as acceptable?

[atomicpossum]

Or, maybe it's just the same phony artifice that is the underlying premise of affirmative action and political correctness? It's hard to make a shallow pool and criticize people for wading in it.

[ARA]

I went to Univerisity with Miss. Valdez (nee Chardon). I knew Denise very well... Never knew she was latin... Chardon was French I thoght... Denise was great though...Very sweet soul...

[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?

[AppyPappy]

Where did she get the name?

[BTHOtu]

I remember her when she was in San Antonio, but I did not know she had changed her name. Always liked her.

[BallyBill]

...And now to Asian correspondent Tricia Takanawa.

[Mannaggia l'America]

newscast with Dave Courvoisier beginning Monday

Mr. Courvoisier obviously changed his Anglo name to a more ethnic French name....

[July 4th]

Julie Banderas on FOX News did this too.

[devane617]

Get use to it...you have W to thank. Here in Dallas the highest rated TV station/News is Hispanic. If you watch the traditional stations NBC,CBS,ABC you will see a bug shift to Hispanic readers. I am also noticing more Spanish language commercials on English stations. Thanks W for destroying our beautiful America.

[originalbuckeye]

I remember this article from before. There is a newscaster out here who goes by the name 'Gordon Tokumatsu' whose real name is Gordon Gary. If I remember correctly, he decided to use his maternal grandmother's name to sound more ethnic. He does look vaguely Asian but not much. At the time, I was floored at the blatant hypocrisy of this type of manipulation. Apparently it is pretty common and treated out here with a wink and a nod.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

What a fool I've been. To think how much farther I could have gone in life if I hadn't stuck with my own, non-protected-group, surname.

That does it. I'm calling a lawyer today to get my name changed to:

Shaquille Hirohito Crazy-Horse Nanook Fidel Tse-Tung

Now, I'm just an average white guy, but I consider myself to be part of the peoples reflected in that name. In sort of an existential sense, you know. A one-man Rainbow Coalition.

[Savage Beast]

I'm sure most people could find that they're part Latino--or some other favored ethnic group--if they look far enough up the family tree.

[showme_the_Glory]

Adillo Culera?

[Flavius Josephus]

Lik Julie Bidwell ==> Julie Banderas on Fox News.

[quark]

NEW CO-ANCHOR FOR MISS "VALDEZ":