Cuba The Media And The Challenge Of Impartiality

Author : Salim Lamrani
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583674710

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Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality by Salim Lamrani Pdf

In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani addresses questions of media concentration and corporate bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba. Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S. blockade, but with misleading or downright hostile media coverage. He takes as his case study El País, the most widely distributed Spanish daily. El País (a property of Grupo Prisa, the largest Spanish media conglomerate), has editions aimed at Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., making it is a global opinion leader. Lamrani wades through a swamp of reporting and uses the paper as an example of how media conglomerates distort and misrepresent life in Cuba and the activities of its government. By focusing on eight key areas, including human development, internal opposition, and migration, Lamrani shows how the media systematically shapes our understanding of Cuban reality. This book, with a preface by Eduardo Galeano, provides an alternative view, combining a scholar’s eye for complexity with a journalist’s hunger for the facts.

Author : Salim Lamrani
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583674727

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Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality by Salim Lamrani Pdf

In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani addresses questions of media concentration and corporate bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba. Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S. blockade, but with misleading or downright hostile media coverage. He takes as his case study El País, the most widely distributed Spanish daily. El País (a property of Grupo Prisa, the largest Spanish media conglomerate), has editions aimed at Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., making it is a global opinion leader. Lamrani wades through a swamp of reporting and uses the paper as an example of how media conglomerates distort and misrepresent life in Cuba and the activities of its government. By focusing on eight key areas, including human development, internal opposition, and migration, Lamrani shows how the media systematically shapes our understanding of Cuban reality. This book, with a preface by Eduardo Galeano, provides an alternative view, combining a scholar’s eye for complexity with a journalist’s hunger for the facts.

Author : Helen Yaffe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300230031

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We Are Cuba! by Helen Yaffe Pdf

The extraordinary account of the Cuban people’s struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Cuban leaders, thinkers, and activists, this book tells for the first time the remarkable story of how Cuba survived while the rest of the Soviet bloc crumbled. Yaffe shows how Cuba has been gradually introducing select market reforms. While the government claims that these are necessary to sustain its socialist system, many others believe they herald a return to capitalism. Examining key domestic initiatives including the creation of one of the world’s leading biotechnological industries, its energy revolution, and medical internationalism alongside recent economic reforms, Yaffe shows why the revolution will continue post-Castro. This is a fresh, compelling account of Cuba’s socialist revolution and the challenges it faces today.

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677124

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Can the Working Class Change the World? by Michael D. Yates Pdf

One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : PURD:32754074684469

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Cuban Political Prisoners by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations Pdf

Author : Sarah A. DeCosse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009815020

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Cuba's Repressive Machinery by Sarah A. DeCosse Pdf

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Freedom of speech
ISBN : PSU:000049646702

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An Assessment of Cuba Broadcasting by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Pdf

Author : Salim Lamrani
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583673423

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The Economic War Against Cuba by Salim Lamrani Pdf

It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part of the U.S. government’s ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their harmful impact on the Cuban people. In this concise and sober account, Salim Lamrani explains everything you need to know about U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans. He examines the U.S. government’s own official documents to expose what is hiding in plain sight: an indefensible, vicious, and wasteful blockade that has been roundly condemned by citizens around the world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110084238

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Radio broadcasting to Cuba by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Matthew Pressman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674916166

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On Press by Matthew Pressman Pdf

A study of how mainstream journalism transformed from 1960 to 1980. In the 1960s and 1970s, the American press embraced a new way of reporting and selling the news. The causes were many: the proliferation of television, pressure to rectify the news media’s dismal treatment of minorities and women, accusations of bias from left and right, and the migration of affluent subscribers to suburbs. As Matthew Pressman’s timely history reveals, during these tumultuous decades the core values that held the profession together broke apart, and the distinctive characteristics of contemporary American journalism emerged. Simply reporting the facts was no longer enough. In a country facing assassinations, a failing war in Vietnam, and presidential impeachment, reporters recognized a pressing need to interpret and analyze events for their readers. Objectivity and impartiality, the cornerstones of journalistic principle, were not jettisoned, but they were reimagined. Journalists’ adoption of an adversarial relationship with government and big business, along with sympathy for the dispossessed, gave their reporting a distinctly liberal drift. Yet at the same time, “soft news”—lifestyle, arts, entertainment—moved to the forefront of editors’ concerns, as profits took precedence over politics. Today, the American press stands once again at a precipice. Accusations of political bias are more rampant than ever, and there are increasing calls from activists, customers, advertisers, and reporters themselves to rethink the values that drive the industry. As On Press suggests, today’s controversies—the latest iteration of debates that began a half-century ago—will likely take the press in unforeseen directions and challenge its survival. Praise for On Press “The ultimate story behind all the stories. In tracing the evolution of news over the past half century, Matthew Pressman has produced an account that’s deeply historical and not a little troubling. In an age when the press is alternately villain or hero, Pressman serves as a kind of medicine man of journalism, telling us how we got from there to here and warning us what must change.” —Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair “Pressman helps us understand how we came to our current, troubled media moment with his deeply researched, engagingly written history of America’s press in the 1960s and ’70s. This is an important and original contribution—and a needed one.” —Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington Post

Author : H. P. Lee,Marilyn Pittard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107137721

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Asia-Pacific Judiciaries by H. P. Lee,Marilyn Pittard Pdf

Explores judicial independence, integrity and impartiality in Asia-Pacific countries.

Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039423582

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Cultural Industries by Unesco Pdf

UNESCO pub. Monographic compilation of conference papers on cultural industry (mass media) trends and cultural policy issues - discusses the definition, production, distribution, internationalisation, impact of technological change and mass media on cultural change, value system, behaviour and attitudes, benefits, social implications, role of UNESCO and national level governments, place of artists and performers, etc., and includes case studies. References. Conference held in Montreal 1980 Jun 9 to 13.

Author : Jairo Lugo
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780335235513

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The Media in Latin America by Jairo Lugo Pdf

"Ably edited, this volume offers an unusually wide-ranging collection of well-informed chapters by experts from across the region. For those who want to understand the current realities that shape media performance from the Gulf of Mexico to the Tierra del Fuego, here is the ideal starting-point." Professor Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow, UK "For those of us in the area of Latin American studies, this text comes to fill a gap in the field, both in terms of teaching and research." Charles Jones, Centre of Latin American Studies,University of Cambridge, UK "More than an introduction, it provides a comprehensive insight into the modern Latin America media landscape." Ramesh Jaura, Chairman of the Global Cooperation Council and Euro-Mediterranean coordinator of the IPS News Agency The media's role as a mechanism of control throughout Latin America has become increasingly sophisticated. Many repressive elements of the dictatorship periods have remained in place or have mutated into more subtle means of censorship and control. Media owners and political elites are more than keen to use the media's increasingly prominent role in framing politics in the region, in order to pursue their own agenda and interests. This book provides a comprehensive and critical overview of some of the most important media systems in Latin America. Drawing on original and critical essays from some of the most prominent authors in the field, the author approaches the subject with a country-by-country analysis, exploring the most relevant aspects of the media in each society. The essays cover: Media history Organisation The interrelationship of the media and the state Media regulation and policy and ownership Broadcast media Film, music, advertising and digital media The Media in Latin America is valuable reading for students of media and journalism studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789231041884

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Freedom of Connection, Freedom of Expression by Anonim Pdf

As this publication explains, freedom of expression is not just a by-product of technical change; it must be protected by legal and regulatory measures that balance a variety of potentially conflicting values and interests in a complex global ecology of choices. The impetus that this report provides for the prioritization of research in this field encourages further scrutiny of the multifaceted issues that govern the conditions for freedom of expression on the Internet. The findings of this research point to the need to better track a wider array of global, legal and regulatory trends. It is my hope that this publication proves to be a useful and informative resource for all users working in this domain, whether individual researchers, students or policy makers.

Author : Andreas Jungherr,Gonzalo Rivero,Daniel Gayo-Avello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108419406

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Retooling Politics by Andreas Jungherr,Gonzalo Rivero,Daniel Gayo-Avello Pdf

Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird's-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media.