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Subject: FW: To Alex Burgos after call Date: Monday, October 10, 2011 6:59:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: Carlos Alfaro
From: Burgos, Alex (Rubio) [mailto:Alex_Burgos@rubio.senate.gov] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 12:15 PM To: Isaac Lee Cc: Randy Falco; Kevin Cuddihy; Cesar Conde; Maria Martinez-Henao; Gerardo Reyes; Luis Fernandez-Rocha Subject: From Senator Marco Rubio's Office Friday, July 8, 2011

Isaac Lee President, News Univision Communications Inc. 9405 NW 41st Street Miami, FL 33178

Dear Mr. Lee:

Thanks to you and your team for hosting Thursday afternoons conference call with Todd Harris and me. We appreciate your willingness to shed light on Univisions journalistic standards and editorial practices as they relate to coverage of public officials, specifically U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. After 45 minutes of discussion, we were disappointed and disturbed by the editorial policy your team made clear that Univision has now adopted when covering private persons who are completely uninvolved in politics, but simply happen to be related to a public official. Your director of investigative reporting and assignment editor both made clear that, for Univision, any life aspect of any public officials relatives is fair game no matter how dated. We interact on a daily basis with virtually every major news outlet in America, and I assure you that Univision stands alone in adopting such a policy. There has never been any dispute regarding the facts about the matter you are investigating. What remains a mystery to us is why Univision actually believes it is legitimate to now revisit this 24-year old incident that has nothing to do with Senator Rubio or his public service. On an earlier phone call, your investigative reporting directors contention that these types of facts are interesting and therefore newsworthy because they involve the relatives of public officials like Senator Rubio simply does not cut it. There are many things about the lives of private people who are related to public officials that are interesting. But using that standard, there is no shortage of outrageous and intrusive stories that could be conjured up. Furthermore, the examples your team provided as validation of this editorial policy are wholly incompatible with Senator Rubios sister and her husband. As we stated on Thursdays call, we fully recognize the lives of public officials are often subjected to close and unwanted scrutiny. However, that scrutiny has always been focused on relatives and friends that are fully engaged in the political process by appearing in campaign ads, campaigning with a candidate, speaking at events, and so on. As we noted, whereas President Bill Clintons brother and Governor Sarah Palins family were deliberately placed in or personally sought the public spotlight and were subsequently scrutinized for contemporaneous events involving them, Senator Rubios sister and brother-in-law have been bystanders in his political career supportive and proud as any relatives would be, but otherwise carrying on with their lives as private citizens. Throughout Senator Rubios time in public office, he has always distinguished between credible news organizations that responsibly exercise their duty to cover and hold him accountable, versus tabloid news outlets that lack this quality and instead appeal to the least common denominator. Until now, our experience has been that Univision is a credible and professional news organization, committed to covering the Senator's work fairly and upholding the highest standards of professional and journalistic conduct. Its the reason why Senator Rubio himself was proud to be directly affiliated with Univision as an on-air analyst during the 2008 election season. Its why he announced his bid for the

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U.S. Senate in an exclusive interview with Univision 23 in Miami. And it is why during his campaign and first six months in the Senate, he has granted Univision news (at both the national and at the affiliate level) unparalleled access in comparison to other news outlets. Unfortunately, your new policy changes that relationship. Your policy is that every single one of Senator Rubios relatives is now fair game for investigations even if they have never sought the limelight and are private citizens, even if the incident being covered is not a current event but instead happened over two decades ago, even if the incident has no bearing on or relation whatsoever to his service, his campaigns or his position on the issues, and even if he was completely uninvolved in the incident. This is a ridiculous standard. And so long as this is your editorial policy, it will be impossible for us to have a productive relationship with your organization. We truly hope you will reconsider the editorial policy you and your team established in Thursdays call to be Univisions guiding principles.

Sincerely,

Alex Burgos Communications Director U.S. Senator Marco Rubio

CC: Randy Falco, President & CEO, Univision Communications Inc. Kevin Cuddihy, President, Univision Television Groups Cesar Conde, President, Univision Networks Maria Martinez-Henao, Univision Network, Assignment Editor Gerardo Reyes, Univision Network, Director, Investigative Unit Luis Fernandez-Rocha, General Manager, Univision 23 Miami

Alex Burgos Communications Director U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) Office: (202) 224-4335 Cell: (202) 420-9589 Email: Alex_Burgos@rubio.senate.gov

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