This opinion piece really opens up a dialogue about the U.S.' real efforts to stop illegal immigrants at the border. People who agree with the writer's sentiments, or maybe even those who don't, will probably come together eventually to shut down what the writer calls a "faulty" system. Therefore, this story is promoting social capital rather strongly.

This story promotes social capital by illustrating an example of it in action- the two spouses who are on two different sides of the same bill. Perhaps by showing these two very close people debating back and forth about it, the recent election's effects are also shown to be opening up the public forum even wider.

In the terms of Gans' Cultural values, this story stands in the general area of Ethnocentrism. The ads that this piece apparently deplores have to do with gratuitous amounts of ethnocentrism- one of them even got itself banned from a certain number of networks. Also, this opinion story also happens to run along a strong race faultline, as the story illustrates a distinct caucasian v.s. Latino conflict, with the caucasians split between liberal and conservative, the latter of which ... More »

Even though this story mostly consists on a complete mess of glommed-together statistics, there are bits and pieces of ethnocentrism and hints at what Herbert Gans calls "Responsible Capitalism". Since this story mainly centers around the differences between the employment/unemployment habits and patterns of immigrants and US-Born workers, it rides along both the class and race fault lines. Also, because of references to quotes by people like CIS' Research Director, ... More »

This is definitely a story put in an institutional frame, as the event at hand takes place at nothing other than an institution! The sources, while rather limited, are well-chosen, along with well-placed. The writer put the solid information, the information promised in the headline, first. Only then did they move on to quote a couple people who commented on the event. This little bit of content placement makes the story sound a bit more fair instead of sounding like a personal ... More »

The writer of this editorial is more or less making a personal complaint against Meg Whitman's actions and inclinations, so this gives the piece a Personal Responsibility frame. The basic intent of this story is to bring to light recent acnd past actions by one person (Whitman) in order to argue against that one person's credibility. This kind of blatant execution of a genetic fallacy, while generally looked down upon, is actually acceptable in articles such as this, because the ... More »