Where Matt Lauer should be going

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As much as I would love for Matt Lauer and the Today show to go down to Cuba and report the TRUTH about what’s going on there (I’m not holding my breath), the reality is if there’s one place that they should be going to report it’s Venezuela where the government’s closure of RCTV has led to 3 days of protest, dozens of arrests and a ton of unrest. But why would they want to go someplace where news is happening?

10 thoughts on “Where Matt Lauer should be going”

  1. Wow, great blog.
    I totally agree with you Henry. Matt’s coverage will likely make me sick . . . how these “journalists” can live with themselves beats me.

  2. It hasn’t even aired yet, but I’m willing to bet anything that the program will be thus:
    –a visit to Varadero
    –a visit to a cigar factory
    –a segment about old 1950’s American cars and the ingenuity of Cubans who can make old car parts out of soda cans
    –a tour of Old Havana and how the government is spending millions of dollars to restore Old Havana because cultured Castro cares about Cuba’s national patrimony [little does it matter that he destroyed Old Havana in the first place and any restoration that takes place now is too little, too late and not enough].
    –a visit to Cuba’s dwindling Jewish community [that Fidel Castro destroyed, but of course they won’t focus on that angle, rather on how the Jewish community is allegedly now being reborn–little does it matter that all Cuban Jews want to migrate to Israel faster than you can count to 3]
    –an interview with Jaime “Lets say a prayer to God so that Fidel gets better soon” Ortega who will talk about the immense freedom of religion in Cuba since the Pope came and how he is against the embargo
    –an interview with Ricardo Alarcon who will say that there are no human rights violations in Cuba and how the “BLOCKADE” is killing Cubans
    –a visit to a Cuban hospital and a Cuban school where students will be asked what they think about the USA and they will say that they love Americans but don’t understand why the USA wants to punish Cuba so much
    –Further discussion about the embargo and how Cubans are coping with it [as if the embargo and not Castro’s policies were at the core of Cuba’s economic problems
    –Some talk about Cuban music
    –and finally a highly censored conversation with a dissident or with Elizardo Sanchez who will downsize–as he always does–the number of dissidents in Cuban jails, and/or spend more time asking for the lifting of the embargo.
    —

  3. wow ray you hit the upcoming special on the dot but you forgot the mention how cuba is supposedly not racist anymore even though 99 percent of cuban government officials are white.

  4. … or about, despite the “hardships that the blockade has caused, forcing many girls to prostitution, at least they are ‘educated’ and have access to ‘free healthcare'”.

  5. To answer your question, Lauer and his ilk wouldn’t set foot in a hot joint like Venezuela because they just don’t have the nuts between their pant pockets to risk getting their hair tousled — or their feathers ruffled — among demonstrators. They’re disgusting sissies who’d probably prefer instead to show up at Miraflores and schmooze con el indio seboruco rather than face the real music in the streets. Ay, why do we bother — Lauer & all the media girlymen, son todos unos puros asquerosos.

  7. oye ray you got some lotto numbers you want to share? i think you got it right!!
    btw as far as the venezuela tv thing, its a pretty big deal in brasil… the house and senate passed a measure “condeming” the act, which is nothing more that window dressing, but it goes to show that other countries in the region are wising up to hugo

  8. Felix and others,
    It’s not that I’m paticularly insightful or anything, it’s just that every single time that one of these Morning Programs [on ABC, CBS, or NBC] goes to Cuba [and this must be the 3rd or 4th time that I can remember that one of the major networks has been to Cuba to let us –uh hum–“know” what is going on down there], they do the same exact thing.
    They are given talking points and they cannot [do not want] to steer away from them. They are told what to film and where to go.
    It’s obscene that any major network with a multi-billion dollar budget, a network from the USA at that-the most powerful country in the world–would allow officials from a deadbeat, impoverished, 3rd world regime with a cadaver as a head-of-state to dictate to them what can and cannot be shown on American TV.
    Some food for thought: Not only does the US mainstream media publish Gramma by proxy [every time that a paper like the New York Times publishes a verbatim newstory from Gramma on its pages, it is like publishing Gramma here], the mainstream media also censors news coming out of Cuba, since it allows the Cuban regime to dictate to them what can and cannot be shown on American TV.
    Really sickening reality.

  9. If I hear Matt Lauer describe squalor as “quaint”, I’m going to throw my television into the street and set it on fire.

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