February 28, 2007
castro's shills get theirs
Gary Marx of the Chicago Tribune was a good reporter in Cuba and he was thrown out. So were two other reporters. They wrote of long lines, lousy trains, dissident arrests, rationing, black marketry, castro's doctors fleeing and the sad disillusionment of Cuba's youth. It's the same stuff one can read here on Babalu blog, or on The Real Cuba or on Uncommon Sense, Blog for Cuba and a ton of others.
But the flip side of this expulsion is the continuing prosperity of lousy castro-shill journalists like AP's Anita Snow and al-Reuters' Marxist Marc Frank, (as well as that Vanessa creature at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel) who toe the castro line, telling us the situation there is all fine, assure us raul is making no changes, Cubans are calm, Cuba is full of progress and that recent crop failure was just a case of bad weather. They'll never be thrown out by the castroites because they're just too valuable to the totalitarian regime.
They get what's coming to them in this newspaper editorial asking them why they haven't been thown out as the real journalists have been. One wonders why these remaining idiots are not red-faced about not joining Marx on the outbound flight from Havana.
Read it here.
Posted by Mora at February 28, 2007 02:01 AM
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This is probably the best article EVER written addressing the msm in Cuba. Wow!
Posted by: pototo ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 28, 2007 08:06 AM
Great post Mora and that Editorial that you linked to was excellent.
It's interesting to note that, as far I can tell, the BBC has made no mention of the government taking away Gibbs' credentials.
Something smells.
Posted by: Henry "Conductor" Gomez at February 28, 2007 10:13 AM
Great post Mora, I agree with Henry, it smells. I suspect the BBC is making nice with castro, Inc. and looking for a "better fit" to take Gibbs' place. Meanwhile the BBC's lead Americas story: "Ailing castro says, I feel good."
Posted by: Ziva at February 28, 2007 12:11 PM
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