US Government Paid Journalists For Anti-Castro Coverage...

Eat The Press September 8, 2006 at 03:31 PM

In the radio game, it's called payola. But the scheme whereby so-called journalists -- a term that's losing its cultural capital by the second -- take money from the U.S. government to bash anything or anyone the current administration hates, well that's called propaganda. And the latest hacks to get caught up in it are ten well-paid employees who are splitting time between their parent corporations, including the Miami Herald itself, and the Bush administration. The target of their collective, handsomely rewarded vitriol? Who else? Castro. According to today's Miami Herald:

"At least 10 South Florida journalists, including three from El Nuevo Herald, received regular payments from the U.S. government for programs on Radio Marti and TV Marti, two broadcasters aimed at undermining the communist government of Fidel Castro. The payments totaled thousands of dollars over several years."

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