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When Boyle Heights shop owner Arturo Macias hears fellow Latinos use the Spanish word for "wetback," he doesn't necessarily take offense.
Macias, who crossed illegally into the U.S. through Tijuana two decades ago, has heard the term "mojado" for much of his life and sees it less as an insult than a description of a common immigrant experience.
"As a country of immigrants," he says in Spanish, "in one way or another, we're all mojados."
Macias is very offended, however, when he hears a non-Latino say "wetback." That distinction befuddles his 20-year-old daughter Karina.
"It definitely is a term to divide people," she said. "You can't use it as a term of endearment at all, whether it's someone outside of your culture or not."
An Alaska's congressman's reference to "wetbacks" during a radio interview last week stirred an uproar and he was forced to apologize. In Latino communities, the episode highlighted how cultural reactions to the word have changed through generations.
Everyone seems to agree that the English version of the term is highly offensive to Latinos when others use it. But when Latinos use mojado which literally means "wet" but is also used to describe illegal immigrants in the United States it's different.
"My grandfather, for all practical purposes, was a mojado. They call each other mojados," veteran Latino activist Arnoldo Torres said. "It's about understanding the complexity. Of seven, eight, nine, generations of Latinos that have lived in the United States."
Torres was already dealing with the fallout of the word 30 years ago.
In 1983, Ernest Hollings, a South Carolina senator running for the Democratic presidential nomination, used the English term at a dinner during a campaign stop in Des Moines. Hollings apologized and met with a group of Latino leaders, including Torres, then the executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
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For Latinos, a Spanish word loaded with meaning
By Caitlin Byrd on 04/02/2013 01:00 PM
"I am very proud of the news staff, who do a lot with few resources, and who are very dedicated to what they do, very dedicated to their work," says Xpress News Editor Margaret Williams.
The North Carolina Press Association gives these awards out each year, and papers enter in one of two contests: Daily Newspaper Edition or Community Newspaper Edition. This separation is done so that newspapers compete against comparable publications with similar circulation numbers and publication type.
But Xpress earned kudos for more than its words. Taking home six awards, Xpress designers earned top recognition from the NCPA's 2012 Best Ad Contest.
And the award goes to... First place awards Best Motor Vehicle Ad Emily Busey Woody loves his VW. (Harmony Motors)
Best Color Apparel - Jewelry and Accessories Ad John Zara Papoose
Best Community Service Signature Page or Best Shared Page John Zara Art Walk
Second place awards 2nd place, Investigative Reporting
In "Unprecedented: Sitel Workers Mount Historic Union Organizing Drive", senior news reporter David Forbes conducted a months-long investigation about the union-organizing drive at the Asheville Sitel call center. He talked to numerous employees, current and former, about their working conditions. Following the article's publication, Sitel changed its labor policy.
2nd place, News Feature Writing
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April 1st, 2013 | 11:00 am
As on-air personalities, bloggers, and editors covering todays hottest urban celebrity stories, the cast of The Gossip Game have to be knowledgeable, opinionated, and quick on their feet. Turning the tables and taking them out of their Q&A comfort zone, we asked Kim Osorio, K. Foxx, and Vivian what the first thing was that came to mind when they heard names like Necole Bitchie and Kanye West, and news outlets like TMZ.
The first episode of The Gossip Game hits air tonight at 9pm ET/PT, and in the wake of the new series premiere, our lovely cast members let us toughen them up for press days in the future by putting them in the VH1.com hot seat to play hip hop media-themed word association game, Word Up.
Hey, 50 Cent! Guess what Kim Osorio said when she heard your name brought up
What did K. Foxx think when Love & Hip Hop Atlantas Joseline was mentioned?
Remember, its only slander if its not true. Watch!
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GREW LEGS: Ben Uffindell, the creator of satirical website The Civilian, sits on the steps of Canterbury University's central library.
A satirical website launched just two weeks ago by a Christchurch man has become an instant hit and is already being heralded as "New Zealand's answer to The Onion".
Former University of Canterbury student Ben Uffindell set up The Civilian as a sideline project, but its success has turned the website into his day job.
The irreverent, satirical site gets an average of 15,000 page views a day and already has more than 2000 likes on Facebook.
It won praise from an unlikely source this week when one of its hoax stories apparently fooled a Kiwi journalist. A story claiming the ACT Party was launching an investigation into how John Banks was their leader prompted a call from one unnamed journalist to the party's president, John Boscawen.
Boscawen issued a press release comparing The Civilian to prestigious US satire newspaper and website The Onion.
"I am honoured that the ACT Party has been satirised in The Civilian following in the footsteps of John Key, Steven Joyce and David Shearer," Boscawen said.
"I had a phone call today from a reporter who had been sent the story and thought she was on to a scoop. I had to break the news that she had been a victim of an April Fools' joke five days too early."
Uffindell said he was surprised by the instant success of The Civilian and the ACT Party press release.
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Satirical spoofs spread word for The Civilian