Hugh Hewitt: The U.S. Media Failed

Monday, July 19, 2021

For a few hours Sunday, July 11, Cubans put their lives on the line … and, with very few exceptions, you heard and saw very little coverage of it.

You simply can’t trust mass media to convey what’s really going on in the country today.

Western media generally and U.S. media specifically failed at a crucial moment.

I am amazed, alarmed and not a little disgusted by the lack of attention to the uprising of an oppressed people in the communist dictatorship. There hasn’t been a protest like this in Cuba in 60-plus years. 

There is dramatic video of the secret police and army thugs crashing into houses to muscle away young people in the days since. Spanish television had live coverage of a dissident being yanked from her interview. But these are rare exceptions in the sea of stories we saw about private-plane-flying, Democratic state legislators from Texas doing stunt double work as elected officials … while Cubans are putting their lives at risk, crying out for liberty.

Do network executives have no shame?

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