Miami Journalists Outed for Taking Govt. Cash
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."Those caught with their hand in the cookie jar include Pablo Alfonso ($175,000), Olga Connor ($71,000) and Wilfredo Cancio Isla ($15,000), who parroted party-line propaganda for El Nuevo Herald, a Spanish-language newspaper financed and published by the corporate parent of The Miami Herald, who have so far dismisssed the three offenders outright. Look for more heads to roll if the heat, pardon the pun, stays on. Of course, it's Florida, so anything goes. Knowing that state, all of the offenders will probably land cushy jobs with Jeb Bush anyway. Stay tuned.
— Scott Thill
Credit to the Huffington Post
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