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25 Years After the Berlin Wall, How the News Media Covered Communism

Looking back at journalism’s track record on communism, one finds a press that was too willing to act as a mouthpiece for the world’s worst dictatorships, and too accepting of the perverse claim ...
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ABC Out to Lunch on U.S. Attempt to Kindle Political Change in Cuba; CBS and NBC Cover

As of Tuesday morning, ABC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Associated Press report that revealed the Obama administration's covert program in Cuba that attempted "recruit ...
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The MRC@25: The Worst Media Bias of 2006

The worst bias of 2006: ABC’s Terry Moran gets a thrill for Barack Obama (“Is he the one?”); AP touts the “comforts” of Castro’s communist dictatorship; and daytime talk show host Rosie ...
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MSNBC's Harris-Perry Lauds Addition of Sex Change Surgery to Cuban National Health Care

On Saturday's Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, after recounting some of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Cuban government against its citizens, host Harris-Perry praised the efforts ...
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So Much for Civil Liberties: Communist Cuba's Mandatory AIDS Quarantine Defended in New York Times, Dictator Castro Praised

New York Times health reporter Donald McNeil Jr. went to Havana and downplayed Cuba's mandatory AIDS quarantines, and credits "socialism," "universal health care," and free condoms for Cuba's ...
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Gumbel: ‘Whipping Up a Frenzy’ Over Imagined Slights ‘Is a Play Straight Out of a Far Right Handbook’

Catching up with Bryant Gumbel from a couple of weeks ago, on the April edition of his Real Sports show on HBO, the NBC News and CBS News veteran came to the defense of Miami Marlins ...
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NBC's Andrea Mitchell Praises 'Highly Regarded' Cuban Health Care System Indoctrinating U.S. Med Students

In a piece of propaganda that would make Cuba's Castro regime proud, on her Tuesday MSNBC program, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell cheered the communist state's "highly ...
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As Pope Draws Crowds in Cuba, NYT Suddenly Remembers Big Crowds Are Product of 'Intimidation,' 'Orchestration' and Coercion

The New York Times coverage of the Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the dictatorship of Cuba has a strange, cheap-shot emphasis on how Cuban crowds are coerced to attend such rallies, an ...
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NYT's Friedman: Castro's 'Idiocy' Complaints About Conservative Candidates 'Not a Good Sign' for GOP

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman forwards Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's insulting the "idiocy and ignorance" of Republican candidates, adding "When Marxists are complaining that your ...
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Friedman: Castro's 'Idiocy' Complaints About Conservative Candidates 'Not a Good Sign' for GOP

Columnist Thomas Friedman forwards Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's insulting the "idiocy and ignorance" of Republican candidates, adding "When Marxists are complaining that your party's candidates ...
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