The Mad Emailer and the AP

Six Americans, six cogs in fifo's propaganda machine, just graduated to much fanfare in Cuba. One sentence really caught my attention:

Carmen Landau, 30, a graduate from Oakland, California, noted in an e-mail message that chronic shortages of medicine and equipment in Cuba - much of it caused by the embargo - make health care here far more complicated than Moore's documentary suggested.

Well here is one of these students ever so gently indicating what we all know about Moore's depiction of the Cuban health care system: IT'S A LIE. What is troubling but not surprising to me to me is that the AP allows the assertion that the state of the health care system is due to the EMBARGO to pass without comment. I am so sick of this poop! THERE IS NO EMBARGO on food and medicine. And AP had a duty to indicate such.

This is what we fight daily: liars and incompetents. Read it all here.

So the Mad Emailer had to wake up early and lob this volley, not that they care.

In one portion of the article published today about six students graduating from medical school in Cuba, a student is quoted as saying that the dismal state of the system is due to the American embargo.
There is no embargo on food and medicine, ergo the statement is erroneous. As journalists you had the obligation to indicate such. By leaving the statement as is with no qualifier, you left the impression in the mind of your readers that the statement was accurate, and it was the big, bad embargo that was hurting the health care system.
I believe that as journalists accuracy is of paramount importance. Perhaps, a fact sheet on the embargo for your correspondents would be in order.