New Miami Herald section for Cuba's Critical Voices
Starting Monday, March 2, The Miami Herald's online Cuba page will display a special Dissident Voices section that will contain reports from non-government sources on the island.
The reports will cover a broad range of developments in Cuba, from cultural events to detentions of dissidents to high food prices, housing collapses and street crime.
They are gathered by Cubanet, a Miami-based organization designed to help independent journalists disseminate their reports abroad, and are translated into English by the International Media Center at Florida International University.
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Seriously, Miami Herald? Really? After all the huffing and puffing about journalists "moonlighting" for the government-funded Radio and TV Martí, you're giving regular space to articles gathered by Cubanet? In effect, that gives an editorial position and "gatekeeper" power to the staff of a USAID-funded organization.
I'm not entering into a debate about the integrity of Cubanet. I read stories on Cubanet all the time. But The Herald has a lot of gall making this move after damaging the careers of so many journalists who did work for a group not too unlike Cubanet — and now the Herald is somehow alright with partnering with a group that gets the federal money even more directly?
Thoughts?
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