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Article: Lining up to cover Cuba: CNN is first - and not everyone is pleased.
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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In a world where Americans learn intimate details about religious upheavals in Afghanistan and follow the smallest gyrations in Japanese stock markets, Cuba, ninety miles off Florida, remains a relative mystery.
Is Castro's economy improving or declining? What kind of education and medical care do Cuban children get? How has this clever dictator managed to last through the terms of eight U.S. presidents, all eager to depose him?
Maybe we'll soon have some answers to these questions from the American media. About the time you read this, CNN plans to open the first U.S. news bureau in Cuba since 1969, when The Associated Press was kicked out. It ...