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Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and Cuba
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
[The article Franklin refers to is here, where you can see the cartoons
and read as much as you can stomach. It's unbelievable. Literally.
Wall Street Journal, Page A1 - Dec 22, 2007
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119829464027946687.html?mod=ONLX
Cuban Revolution
Yoani S!nchez fights tropical totalitarianism, one blog post at a time.
One thing is interesting about the article. It does talk about the
"lost generation," which is a social problem that the Cuban
revolutionary government is well aware of.
Called Generation Y here (the name of the S!nchez Blog), these are
people who were raised before the USSR self-destructed, but who came of
age during the very serious "special period" after the USSR's collapse,
when shortages of everything, even food, were a major threat to the
whole population. To young adults who grew up never knowing serious
want, or the brutal Batista dictator****p, without the economic fears
they now faced, this was a profoundly traumatic time, and some people in
this generation have never recovered from it. They exhibit symptoms
that in some ways resemble those of abused children.
The end of the special period coincided with the introduction of the
Internet in Cuba (October, 1996), and the inevitable flood of images
and text hawking consumer goods and other trash from the US. In the
1990s also, the yanqui dollar was legalized and some private
enterprises introduced. Tourism provided more dollars to some of the
population, and the beginnings of a two-tier class system threatened
the society. In addition, the movie-mad Cubans were exposed to a
steady diet of American films on Saturday night television, that were
also subliminally very destructive, because of their idealized
Hollywood ****trayal of the US as a place where everyone had their hair
done all the time, and everyone lived with dishwashers, in houses with
picket fences, and wanted for nothing. There were some intellectuals
who disagreed with showing the Saturday Night movies, and thought they
were poisonous.
In any case, the "liberalizing" of culture, etc. is hardly a new
phenomenon, and the idea that Raul Castro is responsible for all of
this, as the WSJ claims, is ludicrous. -NY Transfer]
sent by Jane Franklin - Dec 22, 2007
Rupert Murdoch's News Cor****ation bought the Wall Street Journal and he
became the chairman of the newspaper on December 13. I had been waiting
to
see what the Journal would now do with Cuba. Today I got my answer. I
have
never seen an article displayed in this fa****on in the Journal: a drawing
to introduce the front-page beginning of the long article which on the
inside page (almost a full page) has three more drawings.
The article presents Cuban blogger Yoani S!nchez as a hero. There's a
comic
strip character to the drawings. In one, the lines make her hips sway in
her mini-skirt. This is new for the Wall Street Journal, and it will
probably increase circulation.
Please go to WSJ.com/OnlineToday and take a look at the article and the
video to see what Murdoch has in store for Cuba. The article is datelined
Havana but there is no byline. I believe anonymity is also new for the
Journal.
What next?
Jane Franklin
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