The media has presented the Cuban government's nationalization of US properties as illegal and without any compensation. In fact, Cuba offered reparation payments based on 20 year bonds at 4.5% interest rates based on October 1958 property assessments. This offer, accepted by other countries, was refused by the US. That compensation and that negotiations were offered and repeatedly refused by the US was rarely reported by corporate media.
The media has claimed the US blockade was a response to Cuban seizure of US properties without compensation, yet Washington's eliminating the Cuban sugar quota occurred more than a year before the US refused negotiations.
New York Times fake news campaigning did not begin with its Russiagate anti-Trump story. On January 3, 1961, four months before the Bay of Pigs invasion, it claimed "It is incredible to us that the Cubans can believe we are about to invade their island...It is difficult for Americans to understand that others can honestly believe things about us that we know to be false" ( p.87).
Bolender reviews some media coverage during the invasion: the Wall Street Journal for instance, reported claims that the invaders had cut the country in two, had taken Santiago de Cuba and captured Raul Castro.
The corporate media painted Cuba's installing nuclear missiles in 1962 as an act of war, even though their purpose was to forestall a new US invasion in the works. In fact, Cuba had as much right to point missiles at the US as the US had to point them at Cuba. Nevertheless, that the US almost went to world nuclear war and destruction of the planet with a naval blockade of Cuba is blamed on Cuba, not on Washington.
Bolender points out the same corporate media bias against Cuba is held against Palestine: "The notion that the Palestinians or Cubans have the right to defend themselves is outside the realm of normal discourse" (p.182).
The New York Times and Washington Post both presented fake news in the 1980s that Fidel sent 500 Cuban troops to El Salvador.
The media historically describes Cubans as emigrating due to the revolutionary government's economic incompetence and political repression. In fact, people all over the world emigrate from poorer countries to richer ones.
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