@article{717783,
      recid = {717783},
      author = {Lamrani, Salim, and Oberg, Larry R.,},
      title = {Cuba, the media, and the challenge of impartiality /},
      pages = {160 pages ;},
      abstract = {"In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani  addresses questions of media concentration and corporate  bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba.  Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to  contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S.  blockade, but with misleading or downright hostile media  coverage. He takes as his case study, El Pais, the most  widely distributed Spanish daily. El Pais, property of  Grupo Prisa, (the largest Spanish media conglomerate), has  editions aimed at Europe, Latin America, and the U.S.,  making it is a global opinion leader. Lamrani wades through  a swamp of reporting and uses the paper as an example of  how media conglomerates distort and misrepresent life in  Cuba and the activities of its government. By focusing on  eight key areas, including human development, internal  opposition, and migration, Lamrani shows how the media  systematically shapes our understanding of Cuban reality.  This book, provides an alternative view, combining a  scholar's eye for complexity with a journalist's hunger for  the facts"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717783},
}