NPR:

Fair and Accuracy in Reporting, the New York-based media watchdog group, published a report in its September/October magazine Extra!, examining the lack of diversity of daytime hosts and anchors at National Public Radio stations in seven selected U.S. cities. The study found of the 83 hosts or anchors, 73 were white, six were black, two were Arab American and one - Doralisa Pilarte at WLRN in Miami -- was Hispanic. Ted Eldridge, station manager for NPR's WLRN, told Weekly Report that Pilarte no longer works at the station and was never a host. She worked on a contract basis, filing two-minute reports for the program ''MarketPlace Local Business Reports.'' Eldridge criticized the study for examining only talk-show formatted NPR stations as opposed to stations with culturally driven programming, many located in the same cities FAIR selected. He added he has no control over picking the hosts of national daytime programs carried by his and other stations and that his station's nighttime programming has diverse hosts. Other cities FAIR examined were WNYC, New York; WQED, San Francisco; KCRW, Los Angeles; WBEZ, Chicago; WAMU, Washington, D.C.; and WABE, Atlanta. The report found that the metropolitan areas served by these stations were 45% white, while 87% of the hosts and anchors on the stations were white.

ZUCKERMAN:

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists wrote a letter to Mort Zukerman, publisher/owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, expressing its dismay with the media mogul over a column he wrote for both publications stating that U.S. Spanish-language media have helped to keep Latinos living in a "subnation.'' MEDIA 41, Oct. 14, 2002 NAHJ spokesperson Rafael Olmeda wrote, "Your own attempt to launch a Spanish-language version of the Daily News in the mid 1990s runs contrary to your assertion that Spanish-language media keep Latino immigrants living in a 'subnation' that stunts assimilation. That is, unless you want to admit that stunting assimilation was your ultimate goal."