Award-winning journalist Ray Suarez opens up about Donald Trump, the challenges facing the media, his own ethnic identity and Marc Anthony.
“The five most disturbing and concerning words that I hear over and over again, I want my country back.”
OUR INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
We talked with Ray near his childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn.
“When Nixon tried to turn the press into an enemy, the public still had a great deal of confidence in the printed press and broadcast media.”
“When the President says things that simply are not true…he can take shelter in a whole new media ecosystem.”
“He (Trump) has taken embarrassing stories and made them week-long stories by continuing public feuds.”
On Election Day 2016: “I think millions of people, and for different reasons, said ‘I am really pissed off.’”
“From outside looking in, Americans see 55 million Latinos as kind of a large undifferentiated brown lump, while from inside the group looking out, we often see each other as slightly different.”
“When Marc Anthony sings ‘God Bless America’…the Twitter-verse blows up with ‘why couldn’t they get an American to sing ‘God Bless America.’”