How Univision Betrayed Their Immigrant Audience

From Jorge Ramos’s confrontations to $200 million deportation ads — the watchdog is gone.

WASHINGTON — Jorge Ramos once stood during a press conference and asked Donald Trump the questions no one else would. He got dragged out of the room for it, but in that moment, he became what Univision was supposed to be: the immigrant’s watchdog. Fierce. Unapologetic. A champion.

Fast forward to today and that watchdog has been put down. Ramos has been ousted, and in his place: a Televisa anchor who lobbed softballs at Trump while Televisa’s executives sat in the room, smiling. Ramos later called the interview “an open mic for falsehoods.” That’s exactly what it was — a once-proud newsroom selling out its own people in prime time.