Question

what is the argument in this and what can discredit it ?

Melita Garza's article, "Framing Mexicans in Great Depression Editorials: Alien Riff-Raff to Heroes."

Answer 1

SOLUTION:-

* Great Depression editorials published in English and Spanish language newspapers in San Antonio, Texas, waged a war f ideas about the role of mexicans and immigrants in he United States that went beyond scially constructing news events to another kind of storytelling, the mythmaking power of ideadrivn opinion writing about "the other".

* Against a backdrop of mass deportations and repatriations to Mexico, the city's three major daily newspappers staked dichotomous positions.

* Willam Randolph Hearst's Light railed against "the criminal meance," competing against the independent San Antonio Express and its concept of the Mexican as "indispensable" worker hero. Meanwhile, th Spanish-laguage La Prensa offered a complex representation of the immigrant, creating a mythology that was largely absent from the mainstream media. Although the media landscape is highly fragmented in the twenty-first century, in the pre-television early 1930s, newspapers were still the primary vehicles throug which news was disseminated.

* In part, ths article relies on a concepton of news a mytological narrativ, a strategy in which journalists nt nly draw on pre-existing cultural storytelling patterns, but also dynamically reshape them. The power of myth and the power of newsboth rest to some degree on the authority ascribed to the storyteller, and in the case of editorials, the myths also have the authority of the journalitic institution behind them.

* When the subject is immigration, this power is used to define what it means to be an American.

* As this article argues, that conception is richer and more complete when the perspective of the Spanishlanguage press is included.