Hard News, Soft Dreams: A Journalistic Walk Across Borders Date: February 22, 2008 The Forum;
Length: 1 hr. 46 min.
In the politicized hysteria surrounding immigration, the Mexican people
are painted in broadly simplistic terms by the press: as dangerous
rogue criminals or as toiling victims deserving of American
citizenship. But behind the politics, deeper truths are at play on our
southern border. Join Alfredo Corchado, the Mexican Bureau Chief of the
Dallas Morning News and 2007 Columbia School of Journalism
Cabot Award Winner, and border photographer Erich Schlege winner of the
World Press Photo Award, for a discussion on Mexico's border culture
and peoples: their stories, their struggles and their hopes for the
Americas.
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