I thought you knew there was no independent journalism. None can escape biases or those who write for them because they're humans comprised of their experiences like everyone else.
I've worked under strict protocols, style guides of two national news gathering organizations rated among the best in the world, one reporting to the private sector, the other public responsible to parliament.
Sovereign countries do what they do without needing a "pass" one way or the other from media. It wouldn't matter if media disagreed with Canada saying no to the US on Vietnam and Iraq because they didn't make sense to Canada.
US mainstream media certainly didn't give Trump a pass, broadcasting his personal and business failings every day. Accurately or otherwise, a minority gave him a mandate to use a wrecking ball.
The fact is Cuba's unprecedented health and education progress within such a short period of governance is acknowledged widely by media and medical and health institutions. Stand up to scrutiny? It's on the public record.
You make too much of "independent" journalists. I've never met one. If there are ones of perfect enlightenment, how come the US came to such a state of voting to change all its institutions by a man of no experience in any of them?
US has some of the most responsible newspapers in the world. Stirring the ashes, one of their early judgments is that hard-hitting journalism and satire may have assisted equally---both sides.
