As Pope Draws Crowds in Cuba, NYT Suddenly Remembers Big Crowds Are Pr

March 27th, 2012 3:54 PM
The New York Times coverage of the Pope's trip to the dictatorship of Cuba has a strange, cheap-shot emphasis on how the Cuban people are coerced to attend such rallies, an authoritarian power play, but one the paper rarely if ever bothers to address during Cuban May Day rallies held in celebration of communism. A nytimes.com search suggests the Times has never previously used the words "…