Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba

by Keith Bolender

Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies. From coverage of the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cuban Five and the current issues of Obama's 'Cuban Thaw' in 2014 to the renewed hostility under the Trump Administration, the edition examines with specific clarity how damaging corporate media treatment of Cuba is to the understanding of the revolution and those who continue to support it. This original treatment scrutinises the foundation for the media’s hostility against Cuba's socialist political/economic system, providing new insight into the propaganda workings of the so called 'free' press in the US and across Western liberal democracies. The work is a unique resource for activists, journalists and students interested in the ever-complicated relationship between the United States and its island neighbour to the south.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2019

Reviews

[Ramzey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book I haven't read any history book of cuba but was disgusted how US corperate media demonize countries like Cuba and and Palestine and lie and distort history. (not only us media also western corperate media)..

The reason why I gave this four stars instead of five because of his mention of russiagate (conspiracy which is also fake news) and he mentioned in one of the last pages of the book that russia intervened in the election of 2016 and helped trump win. That's nonsense.

Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars. Also the now dead Stefen F cohen wrote about the russiagate nonsense in his book war with russia in 2018.

[Thomas Ray]

P95.82.C9 B65 2019 Memorial Library

[Jake Ecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good explainer on US media operating in lock-step with US policy towards Cuba (always with goals of regime change, just changing slightly the means to that end), but subscribes to a kind of Cuban exceptionalism in discussions of other countries. The author espouses some clearly propagandized conspiracy theories about other countries that do not hold up to scrutiny, falling for the same tricks that he discusses the media using in discussions of Cuba since their revolution.