Monday, August 07, 2006
Re: "Longest-serving" [Tim Graham]
K-Lo, wouldn't the "longest-serving" people in Cuba be the....servants? Or the masses, as the Marxists call them? The other annoying making-lemonade-out-of-dictatorship formulation from reporters is that Castro has "outlasted" 10 or 12 presidents. Do these reporters or analysts really believe that the superior form of government comes from long-standing iron rule? If not, why use that phrase?
When it comes to communism, it still seems reporters are completely soft on dictators. Here's a golden oldie. Back in 1989, when longtime Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko died, ABC did not describe him as vicious or as hurting people. He was "the great survivor of Soviet politics." But when George HW Bush's campaign manager Lee Atwater died in 1991, ABC remembered him this way: "He had a vicious streak. He hurt people."
08/07 09:09 AM
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