[USA] Democracy in the Age of New Media: A Report on the Media and the Immigration Debate / Brookings Institution, September 2008
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"The U.S. media have hindered effective policy making on immigration for decades, and their impact has been increasing in recent years as a result of an ongoing evolution in the media industry. Deeply ingrained practices in American journalism have produced a narrative that conditions the public to associate immigration with illegality, crisis, controversy and government failure..."