Chi Trib’s Gary Marx and two other reporters have to leave the island paradise, but why are others still there? asks Investor’s Business Daily.
Earlier this week, unexpelled Reuters correspondent Marc Frank wrote about Cuba’s latest failed sugar harvest, making no effort to look up why government price-setting creates the same disastrous result over and over. Like the Soviets of old, he blamed the weather.
Not everything Frank [an ex-People’s Daily World staffer] does is bad, but [he] states in many of his reports that Cuba’s economic problems are a byproduct of the U.S. embargo rather than the failures of socialism.
Not to be outdone, Anita Snow of the Associated Press is the go-to person for every Western fringe leftist visiting Cuba and parroting Castro’s priorities.
I’d say any time one is expelled by a government, the others are to be examined. Remember: CNN hung on in Iraq by reporting Sadaam’s election victories with a straight face and ignoring atrocities, later claiming they could not report them without endangering sources.
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