Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba'
A case study of corporate media disinformation
Bolender, Keith
http://links.org.au/keith-bolender-manufacturing-the-enemy-the-media-war-against-cuba
Date Written: 2020-04-08
Publisher: Links International Journal Of Socialist Renewal
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian “election interference,” on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China’s Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua and Palestine, among others. But one of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba. It is well covered in Keith Bolender’s Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba.
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This thoroughly documented work is a good antidote to the constant anti-Cuba disinformation we are subjected to, which inevitably influences all of us. According to a well-known quote, itself falsely attributed to Nazi leader Goebbels, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”.
Over the 60 years of the Cuban revolution, the corporate media has implanted in us a negative image of Cuba through their distortions of the country’s political and economic system, their discounting the revolution’s achievements, and their denial of the impact the blockade and US terrorism have had on the country. The media has been especially effective in not addressing the endless complex problems a developing nation faces once it has decided to establish genuine sovereignty while trying to survive the relentless hostility of the world’s superpower.
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