Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality reviewed by The Progressive Standard

REVIEW: “CUBA, THE MEDIA, AND THE CHALLENGE OF IMPARTIALITY” BY SALIM LAMRANI
MARCH 11, 2015

J.D. THOMASON

In Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality, Salim Lamrani, a French journalist and professor of Latin-American studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV, raises important questions about the condition of journalism today and the role played by privately owned, centrally controlled media cartels. As an important addition to his previous work, The Economic War Against Cuba, Lamrani, examines media treatment of Cuba taking an investigative journalist’s approach to dissecting a variety of claims made about life and politics on the island since the revolution of 1959.

Lamrani uses one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most influential publications, El País, as a case study, and applies the journalistic code of ethics to the publication’s reporting. Specifically, the author examines the media’s handling of a variety of complex issues ranging from basic quality of life challenges facing Cuba to more ideologically charged subjects such as “political prisoners” and the trial of the so-called Cuban Five…

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