{"id":37905,"date":"2019-05-23T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37905"},"modified":"2019-05-23T06:30:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:30:51","slug":"independent-review-says-u-s-funded-broadcaster-failing-to-spread-fair-and-balanced-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/independent-review-says-u-s-funded-broadcaster-failing-to-spread-fair-and-balanced-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent review says U.S.-funded broadcaster failing to spread fair and balanced news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9503\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-100x18.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial.jpg 1544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/us-funded-broadcaster-failing-to-spread-fair-and-balanced-news-an-independent-review-says\/2019\/05\/21\/4f0e7b68-7bf3-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a> via Mark Fahey)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. agency that is supposed to broadcast objective Spanish-language news programs into Cuba fails to meet basic standards of journalistic fairness[&#8230;] The review of [Radio] Mart\u00ed content, conducted by Spanish-speaking academics and former journalists and released Tuesday, found the news organization routinely allows \u201calmost any criticism of the Cuban government and its leaders\u201d on the air. The effect, the report concluded, is that the station has sometimes resembled anti-communist propaganda and has failed to be a broker of fair and unbiased broadcast journalism, as is mandated by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>John F. Lansing, the chief executive of the station\u2019s parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the review did not find that the biased coverage had been directed by any political appointee of the Trump administration. Rather, he said, the failures flow from a \u201cbroken culture\u201d at Mart\u00ed, which has relied on Cuban dissidents as on-air personalities and on a small group of anti-communist organizations as sources for some content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s tempting to make an assumption about the Trump administration, particularly given the terms that have been used about the press, but I can tell you unequivocally that there has been no influence by the Trump administration,\u201d said Lansing, a holdover from the Obama administration. Rather, he said, the report reveals \u201ca lack of basic journalist standards across the board.\u201d[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/us-funded-broadcaster-failing-to-spread-fair-and-balanced-news-an-independent-review-says\/2019\/05\/21\/4f0e7b68-7bf3-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article on the Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Washington Post via Mark Fahey) A U.S. agency that is supposed to broadcast objective Spanish-language news programs into Cuba fails to meet basic standards of journalistic fairness[&#8230;] The review of [Radio] Mart\u00ed content, conducted by Spanish-speaking academics and former journalists and released Tuesday, found the news organization routinely allows \u201calmost any criticism of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[406,4128,1647,184,7245,4378],"class_list":["post-37905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-bbg","tag-john-lansing","tag-mark-fahey","tag-radio-marti","tag-u-s-agency-for-global-media","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Rn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15113,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/a-quick-pari-dxpedition-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":37905,"position":0},"title":"A PARI DXpedition update","author":"Thomas","date":"October 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The SWLing Post DXpedition at PARI is going very well. \u00a0We started yesterday around noon with beautiful fall weather; late last night, it started raining but that hasn't dampened our spirits today. 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