{"id":93,"date":"2006-08-11T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2006\/08\/11\/when-news-breaks-in-latin-america-turn-to-padgett\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T11:09:02","slug":"when-news-breaks-in-latin-america-turn-to-padgett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2006\/08\/11\/when-news-breaks-in-latin-america-turn-to-padgett\/","title":{"rendered":"When news breaks in Latin America, turn to Padgett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" alt=\"\" height=\"232\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/padgettweb.jpg\" \/><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif';font-size: 13px\">Stev<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif';font-size: 13px\">e Charles\u2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif';font-size: 13px\">Just found out from political science professsor Melissa Butler that Tim Padgett \u201984 was a featured expert on PBS&#8217;s Jim Lehrer <i>News Hour<\/i> in early August.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>TIME Magazine<\/i> Miami bureau chief won the Cabot Prize from the Columbia University last year for his &quot;distinguished journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding.&quot; With Fidel Castro ailing and his brother, Raul, in charge of Cuba, the folks at the <i>News Hour<\/i> were in need of some of Tim&#8217;s expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif';font-size: 13px\">&quot;Raul has always had this reputation as sort of a hard-line enforcer for Fidel, and that&#8217;s one reputation that, in recent months, Fidel&#8217;s government has been trying to soften with a sort of P.R. makeover,&quot; Tim told Lehrer. &quot;You&#8217;re seeing long articles in the official newspaper, <i>Granma,<\/i> for example, that have been trying to present Raul&#8217;s more warm and fuzzy side as a family man and a grandfather, trying to build a little bit more of a human connection between Raul and the Cuban population that Fidel has had sort of a mystical bond with that Raul has just never had.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif';font-size: 13px\">You can read a transcript of Tim&#8217;s appearance on the show at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/latin_america\/july-dec06\/castro_08-01.html\">Online NewsHour.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif';font-size: 13px\">His <i>TIME Online<\/i> article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1222009,00.html\">&quot;Why Raul Castro Could End Up a Reformer,&quot;<\/a> offers a more thorough analysis of the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Charles\u2014Just found out from political science professsor Melissa Butler that Tim Padgett \u201984 was a featured expert on PBS&#8217;s Jim Lehrer News Hour in early August. The TIME Magazine Miami bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}