No Excuse for Lazy Journalism

March 14, 2011


BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS


In today's Wall Street Journal story on Alan Gross and USAID's Cuba program, reporter Nicholas Casey fell victim to lazy journalism.

Instead of researching the topic, Casey simply regurgitated (as fact) a common spin phrase of opponents of U.S. policy -- that USAID's Cuba programs are somehow "covert."

Yet, a simple Google search would have shown Casey that the details of these programs are just a click away on the Internet, as they are fully disclosed on USAID's website.

In other words, they are so "covert" that they are accessible to all free people (such as Casey) on the World Wide Web.

Sadly, Alan Gross is now in Castro's gulag for trying to extend that freedom to the Cuban people.