Ramos tends to write from a place that is both inside and outside mainstream America, he holds well-defined positions on the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. culture and politics today. Ramos continues to reach a wide domestic and international audience as a broadcaster, and as an author. He made the decision to be an author in order to get his voice across. Based on this analysis, Jorge Ramos is both a creation of and a contributor to the pervasive presence of the mass media in contemporary culture and an example of the star status of key personalities in today’s journalism. Ramos’s writings on the struggles of Latino immigrants exemplify this stance, insofar as his own status as an immigrant and a Latino with privileged access to the media
