Re: Cuba imprisons journalist, calling him a `social danger'


"Dan Christensen" <dchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 22, 7:35 am, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan Christensen wrote:
On Apr 21, 6:34 pm, " krp" <web24...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dan Christensen" <dch...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Apr 20, 9:22 am, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Reporters on the island are paid $5 to $15 a story, and the
government
has accused them of being ''mercenaries.'' Cubanet receives funding
from
a variety of sources, among them the U.S. Agency for International
Development and Reporters Without Borders.
$15 is a princely sum by Cuban standards for a crummy little
propaganda piece that the mainstream capitalist media won't touch
with
a ten-foot pole. I don't know about this guy and his history, but it
must be a real temptation for unscrupulous social outcasts who want
to
make a fast buck. Or who want to jump the emigration queue for the
US.
Amusing that $ 15 is a "princely sum" in the people's republic
worker's
paradise when many "workers" under Batista earned $150 a month or more
who
now ear $ 6.50 a month for the same job. How odd is that?

Not so odd when you compare social conditions under your beloved
Batista regime with Cuba today.

what is "odd" is that Cubans that do speak out against the regime tend
to lose their jobs as do their relatives.

Or did they quit?

Get real comrade Dan.
Here are some instances:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=journalist+fired&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8

At up to $15 for a crummy propaganda piece
(snip)

Nope. Award winning stuff.
Not much for award winning journalists, no?
Not much for someone risking his freedom with every word he writes.
Not much if you have to call it in to the US as you can't have internet
access.
Not much if a bottle of cooking oil costs $2.
and $5 to 15 is certainly not the $10 a paragraph you falsely claimed.

PL


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