If CNN is your news source you should read this

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From: Flexner, Allison
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:46 AM
To: *CNN Superdesk (TBS)
Cc: Neill, Morgan; Darlington, Shasta
Subject: Castro guidance
Some points on Castro ? for adding to our anchor reads/reporting:
* Please say in our reporting that Castro stepped down in a letter he wrote to Granma (the communist party daily), as opposed to in a letter attributed to Fidel Castro. We have no reason to doubt he wrote his resignation letter, he has penned numerous articles over the past year and a half.
* Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba ? namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.
* Also the Cuban government blames a lot of Cuba?s economic problems on the US embargo, and while that has caused some difficulties, (far less so than the collapse of the Soviet Union) the bulk of Cuba?s economic problems are due to Cuba?s failed economic polices. Some analysts would say the US embargo was a benefit to Castro politically ? something to blame problems on, by what the Cubans call ?the imperialist,? meddling in their affairs.
* While despised by some, he is seen as a revolutionary hero, especially with leftist in Latin America, for standing up to the United States.
Any questions, please call the international desk.
Allison
Allison Flexner is, as confirmed by a Google search, a producer for CNN. Here?s a profile at Spoke (http://center.spoke.com/info/p9n1N6r/AllisonFlexner), which confirms Flexner?s employment at CNN in Atlanta.

[starbreaker666]

Well it's not the Communist News Network for nothing.

[al24]

Don't watch CNN, but what's the point?

[al24]

Hmm FaUX news must have read the memo.


Castro rose to power on New Year's Day 1959 and reshaped Cuba into a communist state 90 miles from U.S. shores.
The fiery guerrilla leader survived assassination attempts, a CIA-backed invasion and a missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Ten U.S. administrations tried to topple him, most famously in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.
His ironclad rule ensured Cuba remained communist long after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe.
Castro's supporters admired his ability to provide a high level of health care and education for citizens while remaining fully independent of the United States. His detractors called him a dictator whose totalitarian government systematically denied individual freedoms and civil liberties such as speech, movement and assembly.
The United States was the first country to recognize Castro's government, but the countries soon clashed as Castro seized American property and invited Soviet aid.
On April 16, 1961, Castro declared his revolution to be socialist. A day later, he defeated the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. The United States squeezed Cuba's economy and the CIA plotted to kill Castro. Hostility reached its peak with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
The collapse of the Soviet Union sent Cuba into economic crisis, but the economy recovered in the late 1990s with a tourism boom.
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[Jeff Mason]

WTF is Faux news?

[sweater]

Don't watch CNN, but what's the point?

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:shrug:

Is there some other news source that you would consider to be more unbiased?

- mike

[Steve]

Is there any truly unbiased news source? I haven't found it... :shrug:

[Jake_Blues]

Don't watch CNN, but what's the point?

Yea, guess I don't see the point either. Are you saying we shouldn't watch any news source that refuses to crucify Castro without any qualifications or reservations? None of the points in the memo are false, what's the beef with it?

-E

[al24]

WTF is Faux news?
Oh sorry. Must have misspeeeled Fox.:rolleyes:

[LONEWOLF]

Faux news must be some new designer news.

[TheCopperCowboy]

Is there any truly unbiased news source? I haven't found it... :shrug:

Try the BBC. They don't have a dog in the fight and their world news is unsurpassed. :thumbsup:

[Jeff Mason]

Try the BBC. They don't have a dog in the fight and their world news is unsurpassed. :thumbsup:

It may seem that way to you, but spend a week or two overseas where there are limited english stations and you *may* disagree. I do. Of course, that would depend on how you view things to begin with.

Which goes back to the statement that there probably aren't any unbiased news reporting agencies, anywhere.

[Budman]

Try the BBC. They don't have a dog in the fight and their world news is unsurpassed. :thumbsup:

See below
It may seem that way to you, but spend a week or two overseas where there are limited english stations and you *may* disagree. I do. Of course, that would depend on how you view things to begin with.

Which goes back to the statement that there probably aren't any unbiased news reporting agencies, anywhere.

x2

[sames]

Is there any truly unbiased news source? I haven't found it... :shrug:

I doubt if you will

[Oscar]

Oscar's Observations are unbiased :D I don't even watch national news anymore stick to local stuff.

[Dagimp]

Which goes back to the statement that there probably aren't any unbiased news reporting agencies, anywhere.

I dont know about you guy, but college many teachers demanded "non biased" papers. Its harder than you think.

[Jake_Blues]

If there truly was a totally unbiased news source, no one would use it. News sources have to choose some sort of scope in order to present information that their consumers actually care about. That means they have to decide which stories to report on, and what priority to give those stories (front page, or buried in the back, etc).

As soon as you start making these decisions, you've introduced a bias of some kind. If you didn't make them, no one would use your publication.

-E

[MountainJeep]

I prefer SKY NEWS. the wimmin anchors are the hottness