The raising of the U.S. flag at the newly opened American embassy in Havana is an important story, but I can’t help finding much of the U.S. media coverage surrounding the event to be repetitive, boring and frivolous.
How many more cheerful stories about 1950s Chevrolets on the streets of Havana, or about formerly U.S.-owned Cuban casinos, or about the Cubans’ ingenuity to repair decades old U.S.-made refrigerators will we have to endure on occasion of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to preside over the flag-raising ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Havana?
True, nostalgia sells, and many people love these stories, but there is a big dose of hypocrisy surrounding this frivolous view of today’s Cuba.
It obscures the fact that Cuba remains one of the world’s closest dictatorships, and that most news organizations try not to be too harsh on the Cuban regime because they don’t want to be denied Cuban entry visas for their correspondents. For as long as I can remember, Cuba denies entry visas to foreign journalists it considers too critical.
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