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| | New Times Los Angeles, April 24, 1998 by Jill Stewart |
 | | I'm wondering what could possibly be going on in the mind of Jerry Perenchio, the 197th richest man in America, an Italian-American Republican who gave a stunning $500,000 to various Republicans in 1996 alone, and who controls Univision, the Spanish-language network that dominates the airwaves in many immigrant households here. |
 | | He is a well-known hedonist who made his early fortune as a partner of Norman Lear and built his wife a $5-million private golf course on a Malibu bluff, and who is now getting even richer by feeding Southern California's Mexican-American population a steady diet of the dumbest, cheapest, most prurient TV programming imaginable. |
 | | It is ironic that Perenchio, Cisneros, and company can get away with the same sort of discriminatory and narrow depictions under the guise that they are somehow "of the people." One leading Latino media figure says Perenchio and Cisneros "have everybody kow-towing to Univision as some sort of Latino icon. |
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