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[Judi Lynn]

34. Your source, the Herald, has pandered to the right-wing reactionary element of the Cuban community

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since they launched a terror campaign against the old publisher, David Lawrence, who left, imagine that! At one point he and his wife both were having people check their cars for them before starting them every day, due to car bomb anxiety, car bombings being a big item in Miami against political enemies of the violent right-wing reactionaries. At one point the FBI named Miami "America's Terror Capital."

Here's an old article discussing how the Miami Mafia went about getting control over the Miami Herald:
TRYING TO SET
THE AGENDA IN MIAMI

Bashing the Herald is only part of Jose Mas Canosa's strategy

by Anne-Marie O'Connor
O'Connor, who is based in Miami, is Latin America and Caribbean correspondent for Cox Newspapers.

The Miami Herald usually takes and assumes the same positions as the Cuban government. But we must confess that they were once more discreet about it. Lately the distance between The Miami Herald and Fidel Castro has narrowed considerably. . . . Why must we consent to The Miami Herald and ElNuevo Herald continuing a destructive campaign full of hatred for the Cuban xile, when ultimately they live and eat, economically speaking, on our support?

Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation, in a local radio broadcast, aired on January 21 and printed in full in El Diario las Americas.

The revelation that The Miami Herald and its Spanish-language counterpart, El Nuevo Herald, were in bed with Cuban leader Fidel Castro must have confounded the editors of the Cuban Communist party organ, Granma, since the Havana daily has repeatedly portrayed them as right-wing tools of the eternal CIA campaign against the thirty-three-year-old revolution.

Anywhere else, Mas Canosa's remarks might have been ignored. In the darker recesses of Miami's exile community, however, his words were clearly a call to arms. Within days Herald publisher David Lawrence, Jr., and two top editors received death threats. Anonymous callers phoned in bomb threats and Herald vending machines were jammed with gum and smeared with feces. Mas Canosa's Cuban American National Foundation quickly denied responsibility and condemned the hijinks, but Mas's words were highly inflammatory in a city where public red-baiting has served as a prelude to bombings and, in past years, murder.

That was in January, but editors at the Herald still feel besieged. Foundations ads saying "I don't believe The Herald" in Spanish are appearing on Dade County buses. Lawrence has heard that foundation people are sounding out advertisers over whether they would support a boycott -- a troubling prospect in a recession.

Coverage of the foundation and Cuba is now carefully scrutinized, Herald reports say. "There has been a watershed in how we operate with Cuban questions," says one staffer, who requested anonymity. "Before the campaign, Cuba issues were dealt with in a routine way."
More:
http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/92/3/miami.asp

On edit, I just came back and tested that link, remembering it's really old, and it has disappeared. The article can be read through certain libraries, still, apparently:

https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA12155856&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=0010194X&p=AONE&sw=w

This article was posted here Sat Dec-06-08 09:24 AM at this link:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3633491

From the archives of the Washington Post:


THREATS AT THE HERALD
By Howard Kurtz
February 4, 1992

A long-running dispute between the Miami Herald and a Cuban exile leader has taken a nasty turn in recent days, with the newspaper's top executives receiving written death threats in both English and Spanish.

Tensions have escalated in the past two weeks after Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of a lobbying group called the Cuban American National Foundation, denounced the Herald on Spanish-language radio. Publisher David Lawrence Jr. accused him in print of trying to "destroy" the paper.

The Herald also received a telephoned bomb threat last week, and dozens of its vending machines have been vandalized, nine of them with feces placed in the coin slots.

"I don't think I can take it lightly," said Lawrence, one of those who received the death threats. But he said, "We will not be intimidated from telling the truth."


Francisco Hernandez, the group's president, said yesterday that "the foundation condemns any threat, any resort to vandalism. This is not the way of the Cuban American community. We believe this is a conflict of ideas."

Mas's group has accused the Herald of siding with Fidel Castro. Mas had a lengthy letter of complaint hand-delivered to Lawrence Saturday. Lawrence questioned Mas's motivation, saying that shortly after he received the letter a Wall Street Journal reporter, Jose de Cordoba, called to ask him about it. The Journal reported on the controversy yesterday.

In the letter, published in Sunday's Herald, Mas accused the paper of "a marked insensitivity to the Cuban American community. ... It is ironic for you to accuse us of promoting hate when we have led the fight for peace and reason. ...

"For over two years, your paper tried to discredit my good name. ... The Herald does not report facts or news. It reports gossip, innuendo and hearsay."

In an accompanying column, Lawrence replied that "when you make wild and angry accusations, like some of this 'pro-Castro' garbage, you stir up the less well-intentioned and the more misguided." Blanketing New Hampshire For the most voluminous coverage of the New Hampshire primary, the envelope, please. The winner is ... the Boston Globe!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/02/04/threats-at-the-herald/0f3df1fb-b24f-4854-8324-aff163f99c63/

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Since the all-out war and all the bomb-threats, etc., etc., etc. from the radical right-wing reactionary first wave of "exiles" from Cuba invaded Miami and overthrew any and all local objective journalism there, there will be NO legitimate information delivered from their local propaganda outlet until that wave, and their progeny, raised on their tall tales about Cuba have died. Each successive generation is becoming more progressive, and one day they may be honest in how they deal with real information.

As Jorge Mas Canosa had his people post all over town, and on the buses, etc., "I do not believe the Herald." That was because the Herald had sinned by printing something Mas Canosa didn't approve. Since he scared David Lawrence out of town, the Herald has NEVER printed any truthful article concerning Cuba since.

The Herald panders specifically to the Cuban "exiles" and the Venezuela right-wing "exiles."