on that makes her feel sad. It is not that she does not enjoy the contribution of Latino entertainers, but they do not represent what is important to corporate America. Groups such as the National Association of Hispanic Journalists argue that coverage equals getting hired. One official said that publications cannot cover Latinos as if they were some peculiar cultural phenomenon. They deserve regular coverage (Navarro, 1999, 18). A senior editor at Time Warner's Time magazine said, "Right now, what the press is doing is chronicling this coming into its own of the Latino community" (Navarro, 1999, 18). She said that articles are dictated by the news and that there was more need for integrating Hispanics into the news without focusing especially on ethnicity. John Leland of Newsweek decried the fact that a pop star could command nationwide coverage while six and a half million Puerto Ricans are ignored.
During the summer of 1999, singer Ricky Martin and the actresses Salma Hayek and Jennifer Lopez were featured on the covers of People, Time, Geor
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