U.S. Paid 10 Journalists for Anti-Castro Reports

10 Journalists, including three who worked for the spanish language sister paper of the Miami Herald received large sums of money from the Federal Government in exchange for anti-Castro reports and radio broadcasts over Voice of America and Radio Marti. The three reporters for El Nuevo Herald, the spanish language version of the Miami Herald were fired. The journalists received up to $175,000 from the U.S. government for their commentaries against Fidel Castro over Radio and TV Marti.



I am no fan of Fidel Castro and think that what the folks at Radio and TV arti are doing is admirable but when news journalists accept large sums of money to do the governments dirty work, then I have a problem. If we can not depend on local news reporters and journalists to maintain an ethical and unbiased stance on their reporting then what's to guarantee that this problem does not extend to the national press.

Are national news journalists and commentators "in the pocket" of the Bush Administration and skewing their news reports and commentaries to their masters agenda? I wonder. After the recent fallout over Reuters and other news wires fabricating and editing photos and stories, I find myself wondering just how we can trust any news report or political commentary as reliable.

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