Anita Snow, the Associated Press bureau chief in Havana appears in this podcast with her editor, Nick Tatro. The thing that strikes me about this is how very basic and simplistic the observations are. And how utterly clueless Tatro sounds.
I’d love to know what you guys think.
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That was painful to listen to – she’s such a bore. She seemed ‘pained’ when admitting that nothing had changed, as if she’d been hoping for the so-called ‘reformer Raul’ to have done his magic by now. Also, when referring to Fidel and saying the people still ‘cared’ for him, or something to that effect. I wonder who she hangs around with down there. They did discuss the meager rations, yet they didn’t fully develop the impact, kind of rushed thru it. Look, there are a lot of things they can’t cover up and so are obliged to mention them, but I don’t sense in these two that they really ‘get it’, that they comprehend how deep the wounds run. I didn’t hear the final portion, but I didn’t get the impression they were going to discuss anything of significance. It was the same old mainstream observations.
Ahem, I think that “newscast” serves as a prime example for why the AP’s ASAP news service went down the drain shortly after its inception. The service was designed to act as a news source for a younger, hipper media consumer. That said, the only word that comes to mind to describe what I just heard – in keeping with the style of the actual podcast itself – is, well “LAME.”
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Considering that most people don’t have a clue about what is going on in Cuba (unlike those of us who obsessively follow all the news on Cuba and seek it out), I thought it was a pretty good podcast, overall, except for the part about people having affection for Fidel. But did you really expect Anita Snow to jeopardize her position? An important point, I think, was what she said about Hugo Chávez: that the Cubans do NOT want him taking over. Because it sure looks like he considers himself the heir apparent of Fidel.