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Last updated on August 6th, 2017 at 01:38 pm
Glenn Garvin reviews the career of New York Times foreign correspondent Herbert Matthews, “the first American reporter to interview Fidel Castro and the last to recognize the man as a ruthless and slightly mad totalitarian murderer. He created, fell in love with, and ultimately was devoured by Castro’s mythology without ever really understanding what was happening.”
Posted by Tim B. on 03/01/2007 at 09:42 AM
- We need an award for NYT reporters, call it the “Duranty” for reporters who get all tight in the britches over tyrants.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 01 at 10:47 AM • permalink
- Hey, Castro fooled us all…at first. Many of us wised up after he took control. Many of us didn’t.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 01 at 03:24 PM • permalink
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Too bad we don’t have a photo of him executing a troublemaker at his garden wall, although I am sure the Fidel has a few of those around. I hear the tomatoes from that garden grew especially red and delicious.