Publisher Quits The Miami Herald After "Cash For Castro" Scandal

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Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer

Miami, FL (AHN) - The publisher of the Miami Herald, Jesus Diaz Jr., has resigned following a scandal where newspaper journalists were paid by the U.S. government to use their articles to help topple the Castro regime in Cuba.

Diaz, who was the publisher and president of the Miami Herald Media Company since July 2005, explains in a letter to readers that he felt in some way responsible for the "breach of widely accepted principles of journalistic ethics."

"Our policies prohibiting such behavior may have been ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years in {the Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister publication} the El Nuevo Herald newsroom."

Diaz adds, "I realize and regret that the events of the past three weeks have created an environment that no longer allows me to lead our newspapers in a manner most beneficial for our newspapers, our readers and our community."



http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005074382

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1. The Miami Herald also.....

Covered up the page story...

"The letter, dated Tuesday, said at least two newspapers, including the Miami Herald, knew of an e-mail exchange between Foley and a page "for months" (Read letter) and didn't view the contacts as significant."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/05/hastert.foley/index.html

They should be investigated.

[Mika]

2. What an ABSURD headline. Should be "Cash for propaganda against Cuba"

Pathetic swill. :puke:

The new owners on the Miami Herald, McClatchy Company, have rehired and have offered to rehire all "journalists" involved. They have pissed off the expat Cubano radical "exiles" in Miami, and now are willing to sell out the last vestige of their principles to curry favor in the extremist vocal (and moneyed) minority within the MiamiCuban community.