June 04, 2007
What in the world is Matt Lauer reporting on in Cuba? (UPDATED)
SPECIAL BLOGBURST
Make sure you check out special blog posts today from around the country regarding the Today Show in Cuba tomorrow. The list below will be growing so check back throughout the day.
Uncommon Sense on Afro-Cuban prisoner of conscience Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and another post here about the lack of press freedom in Cuba and still another here about political prisoner Léster González Pentón.
El Cafe Cubano on political prisoners and exections in Cuba.
Claudia4Libertad on why the rafts only go in one direction.
Blog for Cuba on the indoctrination of children and that "free" education in Cuba.
Cubanology on acts of repudiation.
Cuban-American Pundits on Afro-Cuban political prisoner Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet.
Alberto de la Cruz on journalist expulsions and media self-censorship in covering Cuba.
More Uncommon Sense about Matt Lauer's unsung colleagues, Cuba's independent journalists and also about what the Today Show should be asking on its online Cuba quiz.
George from The Real Cuba challenges Lauer to talk about the two healthcare systems in Cuba, the one for the upper echelon of the communist party and for foreigners and the on for everyday Cubans. And he also challenges Lauer to show the crumbling ruins of Havana, not just the renovated parts of Old Havana that have been spruced up for tourists.
(UPDATED 9 AM) Robert from 26th Parallel addresses Cuba's greatest export: its people.
Fausta has the jogging suit photo-op.
El Gusano highlights the 48 year old faily tale.
UPDATE - 11:30 AM
Cuba Watch tells about the pitfalls of covering Cuba from a journalist's point of view.
Ask Matt Lauer a question about his broadcast in Cuba by clicking here.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at June 4, 2007 06:01 AM
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I saw it this morning; nothing much. Talked about fifo looking "better" and having to cut his beard, a short clip of a Cuban saying that he loves fifo, Alarcon said something too, and then Matt said that tomorrow they were going to talk about the political differences among cuban americans in regards to US policies towards Cuba, and I think he said something about not all Cubans in Cuba loving fifo.
Will tune in tomorrow, I just wish I was more fully awake at the time they do the segment.
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at June 4, 2007 10:18 AM
Just caught the segment of Today Show viewers (Cuban-American) reading the letters they sent in to Lauer in recent days.
The one that truly shocked me came from a woman - again - a Cuban-American - who parroted the myth that Cuba in the pre-Castro years had no middle class. This was shocking, considering the fact that Cuba had one of the largest middle-class populations in all of Latin America - if not THE largest (not sure on the exact numbers here). Indeed, it's something I've always been proud of as a Cuban - the idea that in Latin American, with all its poverty, etc, Cuba once stood out as an economic success story for most of her citizens. The ignorance in our own community is sometimes just as shocking as that of the international community. Granted, these instances are rather rare, but they do happen.
-Anatasio
Posted by: CubaWatch at June 4, 2007 12:27 PM
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