http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/11318/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/after-friday-sentencing-flashback-newspapers-painted-spies-cuba-endearing-elderly-couple <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/brent-baker">Brent Baker</a> </div> </div> </div> <div style="float: right;"><img src="http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/uploads/Myers.jpg" height="204" width="220" /></div><p>On Friday, Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers, who spied for Cuba, were sentenced to prison terms (life for him, six years for her) by the federal court in DC, an action which Washington Post reporter <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071600684.html" target="_blank">Spencer Hsu described as</a> <b>"a grim ending to the Myerses' idealistic embrace of the Cuban revolution."</b> Flashback to a <a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/after-friday-sentencing-flashback-newspapers-painted-spies-cuba-endearing-elderly-couple" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division BiasAlert Cuba GwendolynMyers history KendallMyers liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes WashingtonPost Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:07:00 +0000 36359 at http://archive2.mrc.org http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/ny-times-and-washpost-paint-spies-cuba-endearing-elderly-couple <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/brent-baker">Brent Baker</a> </div> </div> </div> <div style="float: right;"><img src="http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/uploads/2009-06-19-MSNBC-NYT-spies.jpg" height="180" width="240" /></div><p><b>"She fell for his worldly sophistication" while he "admired her work helping ordinary people,"</b> gushed a front page Friday New York Times story on Gwendolyn and Kendall Myers, both charged with spying for communist Cuba for nearly 30 years.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/ny-times-and-washpost-paint-spies-cuba-endearing-elderly-couple" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division BiasAlert Cuba GwendolynMyers KendallMyers liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes Spying WashingtonPost Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:35:00 +0000 34780 at http://archive2.mrc.org