WaPo Uses Bland Headline for Cuban Dissident Medal of Freedom Story

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By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
November 6, 2007 - 11:56 ET

On Monday, President Bush honored a Cuban political prisoner, author Harper Lee, and former congressman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), along with five others in a Medal of Freedom ceremony. Yet while Washington Post Foreign Service staffer Nora Boustany led her November 6 article with a focus on the Castro-imprisoned Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, Post headline writers slapped a bland headline on the story, "Cuban Doctor Among Eight Honored at White House."

That's hardly an enticing attention grabber for your average Post reader flipping through page A14 while hunched over his corn flakes.

A review of Google News shows other papers, such as the Miami Herald honed in on the Biscet angle ("Cuban dissident Biscet receives presidential medal") while others such as the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Birmingham News focused on Alabama native Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird."


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Fidel would have aborted this Doctor

November 6, 2007 - 12:39 ET by Lame Cherry

Amazing how liberals never focus on what comrade Fidel would have done to this doctor if he had remained in Michael Moore's medical haven.

He would have been arrested in the middle of the night by armed troops. Sat in a cold, dank prison cell for months being seen not so often by his Fidel attorney to finally be hauled in to a kangaroo court to be tried by a commie judge with state witnesses where he would have been found guilty and aborted from Cuban society forever.

Of course none of this matters to the WaPo as their higher up cartel bosses run the money laundering banks who control the WaPo purse strings. The WaPo will never run articles on the billions which Fidel runs off of illegal drugs and pumps it all into these banks for their skim.

 

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The must have a pool at the

November 6, 2007 - 13:27 ET by mattm

The must have a pool at the WaPO to see who gets stuck with the "positive" Bush administration story.  The loser is then snickered at, and forced to buy lunch for everyone.

I can see him or her with an indignant expression, muttering expletives under his or her breath while banging the keyboard in disgust.

oh, pleaassee - I see

November 6, 2007 - 13:59 ET by katlee

oh, pleaassee - I see nothing wrong with that headline, you're really reaching here