How did El Diario handle the news of the World Trade Center attacks compared to mainstream dailies?
Our readers are as patriotic but at the same time they are more willing to criticize the United States’ actions in Afghanistan. They’re more willing to talk about finding a peaceful solution. I see more reaction to the deaths of the civilians over there. In general, I think that there’s a lot of patriotism but at the same time there’s also more of an ability to be critical and to at least suggest that the U.S. should pursue other options. Q: Were there topics that El Diario covered that maybe have been lacking in other papers regarding the WTC attacks? A: Yes and I think other publications got to these topics eventually. I think it’s a matter of how quickly did we identify these issues versus other publications. We did a story within a week on the Latino victims of the World Trade Center and if you look at some of the news coverage it really seemed that for the first few days as though the only people who had died were white people, whether it was the business people who had died or th
