TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teel,Leonard Ray
TI  - Reporting the Cuban Revolution: how Castro manipulated American journalists 
T2  - Media and public affairs
SN  - 9780807160947
AV  - F1788 .T355 2015
U1  - 972.9106/4 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - Castro, Fidel,
KW  - Reporters and reporting
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Foreign news
KW  - Information internationale
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Public opinion, American
KW  - Relations with journalists
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Foreign public opinion, American
KW  - Revolution, 1959
KW  - 1959 (R�evolution)
KW  - Journalistes
KW  - Couverture de presse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index; The thirteen -- Scoop! -- The stage is set -- Cuba's jungle fighters -- Marching with Castro -- The two Havanas -- This is absolutely false -- It is necessary to have faith -- How can we prove we are not something? -- Liberator or dictator? -- Epilogue: in revolutionary situations
N2  - Reporting the Cuban Revolution reveals the untold story of thirteen American journalists in Cuba whose stories about Fidel Castro's revolution changed the way Americans viewed the conflict and altered U.S. foreign policy in Castro's favor. Between 1956 and 1959, the thirteen correspondents worked underground in Cuba, evading the repressive censorship of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship in order to report on the rebellion led by Fidel Castro. The journalists' stories appeared in major newspapers, magazines, and national television and radio, influencing Congress to abruptly cut off shipments of arms to Batista in 1958. Castro was so appreciative of the journalists' efforts to publicize his rebellion that on his first visit to the United States as premier of Cuba, he invited the reporters to a private reception at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, where he presented them with engraved gold medals. While the medals revealed Castro's perception of the correspondents as like-minded partisans, the journalists themselves had no such intentions. Some had journeyed to Cuba in pursuit of scoops that could rejuvenate or jump-start their careers; others sought to promote press freedom in Latin America; still others were simply carrying out assignments from their editors. Bringing to light the disparate motives and experiences of the thirteen journalists who reported on this crucial period in Cuba's history, Reporting the Cuban Revolution is both a masterwork of narrative nonfiction and a deft analysis of the tension between propaganda and objectivity in the work of American foreign correspondents
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