Nielsen Responds to Criticism, Forms Latino-Advisory Council
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Nielsen Responds to Criticism, Forms Latino-Advisory Council
The Nielsen Co. announced the formation of a national Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council (HLAC) to help inform and enhance the company's efforts to recruit, measure and accurately report on Latino television households in the United States, reports FOX Business News. Last year, Nielsen was criticized by the National Council of Latino Media Council over how Latino viewers were sampled.
Muslims Sue Justice Dept, Immigration Officials Over Citizenship Delays
The Justice Department and immigration officials are being sued by 25 Muslims who claim their citizenship applications is being unreasonably prolonged by background checks, reports NPR. According to U.S. law, immigrants must live in the United States for five years and then must pass an interview and a test before they can become citizens. Legal residents who apply must be approved or denied no more than four months after passing the interview and test. The lawsuit says the plaintiffs have been waiting two to five years for their applications to be processed. Immigrant names must be checked against a law-enforcement database, but the backlog for Muslims is more than 300,000-names long.
Rapper Stirs N-Word Debate
The N-word may have been symbolically "buried" by some jurisdictions across the country, but it's clearly not dead. The rapper Nas stirred the pot at this month's Grammy awards by wearing a black T-shirt with the word emblazoned on it to promote his forthcoming album of the same name, reports Black College View. Nas reportedly wants to "ease the sting" of the word, but that hasn't eased the concerns of many, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. "Nas has the right to degrade and denigrate in the name of free speech, but there is no honor in it," Jackson said in a statement.
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