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[Marxism] Re: Herbert L. Matthews and the New York Times on Cuba

There are more than three articles here by Matthews. The Times includes the post-revolution articles as well.

You can download all of these articles as images. However, to prevent massive copying and to profit from their resource, ProQuest prevents you from copying and pasting text, which generally works in other pdf formats, although sometimes in a very rough form indeed. Nor can you search by word within the article, which you can do in standard pdf files.

In general using ProQuest:

Using standard search procedures, ProQuest gives you the titles and dates of the articles (including advertisements) . When you download it, it is not a whole page, but only the article, which is really convenient and obviously saves a lot of disk space. However, at this point—after you have the download—you can't search within the article. You just have to assume that what you are looking for is there and examine it closely.

WARNING FOR MACINTOSH USERS. DON'T USE SAFARI.

It is important to download with the correct browser. I have a Macintosh and when I downloaded with Safari all I got was a version of the file that was compatible with Preview. Preview images are inferior and do not allow flexibility in printing. So I use Netscape.

Using Netscape, aside from the print page itself, which has flexible percentages, you can also draw a box around the selection that you want. When you go to print, you will print only what is in the box. Thus, if an article takes up a whole page and would be almost unreadable if you printed it out at 8.5 x 11, you can instead select proper portions (which you can turn in the print menu) and thus create pages that are readable. To achieve maximum clarity, first enlarge the section that you want, then draw the box, the print. You will have to play with this a little to achieve the best result for yourself.

Brian Shannon


On Apr 30, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Walter Lippmann wrote:

Last Sunday the New York Times ran a puffy review of Anthony DePalma's
dreadful THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIDEL, an attempt to assassinate both
the character and the reputation of a dead man, the New York Times
reporter who provided accurate and clearly favorable reporting in the
New York Times during a period when the Batista dictatorship was then
using the media to spread the notion that Fidel Castro was dead. The
implication was that, as all dictators want their populations to say,
that resistance is futile. I noted at that time that the Times, which
I often refer to as the New York Slimes for its smarmy hostility to
Cuba's revolution, has done something different and good today: it
is running in PDF all three of the actual articles which Matthews
wrote at that time, so readers can see and assess how they hold up
for themselves. It is necessary to register to obtain access to the
articles, but registration to the New York Times is mercifully free.

Here's the story with all the links.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23alter.html

Walter Lippmann, CubaNews
http://www.walterlippmann.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews


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