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Guest Editorial: 
Al Día

A long batch of tweets excoriating ESPN for broadcasting the World Baseball Classic in Spanish (though the preferred term was actually “Mexican”) and Justin Timberlake’s Hugo Chavez skit on Saturday Night Live prompted a newsroom discussion about whether we — Latinos — are too sensitive about the way we are depicted, or referred to, by non-Latino Americans.

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<p align="justify">More than 33 million Hispanics have watched professional football so far this season making it the most-watched NFL season among Latinos. Professional football, not fútbol delivered two of the most-watched professional sporting games in 2011 among Hispanics.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Generation Ñ</strong></p>