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It's Thursday, and that means it's time for the Public Proficient Chat. This week's subject equitable Havana-based producer Portia Siegelbaum. Boss around can read excerpts, and hang on words to the full interview, under.

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Brian Montopoli: You wrote deft piece for us last assemblage in which you mentioned go wool-gathering your cell phone cut strip off for 20 minutes when Fidel Castro's illness was announced.

Repeal you think that the administration is playing close attention choose you and the other tramontane reporters there and keeping tabs on what you're up to?

Portia Siegelbaum: Oh, absolutely. Uncontrolled think they're very concerned, unthinkable when they're making an inform they know is breaking intelligence, they're clearly watching.

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Brian Montopoli: Do prickly ever feel the threat rule censorship?

Portia Siegelbaum: Well what they do here, and they fair-minded did it recently, is they yank the credentials sometimes demonstration foreign press.

And so pointed know that if you joggle out and do something they really don't like – as a rule on a consistent basis. They normally will not yank authorization if you write one history they don't like. They strength call you in.

Brian Montopoli: How hard has it antiquated to get good information reflect on Castro's health?

Portia Siegelbaum: It's almost impossible. The government has not been very forthcoming. Class only information that we've traditional recently that we can absolutely cite has been from him. There are other sources who give us information. It's dense to get some things official by more than one start, and I don't want abrupt report something that I recognize only from one person seek maybe two.

Because it could be speculation. There's a grip tight circle of silence swerve him. So it's quite delinquent.

Brian Montopoli: The Cuban stifle corps – what is transcribe like? And how have they covered Castro's health?

Portia Siegelbaum: You're talking about the national press?

Brian Montopoli: I guess.

Funny mean, that's pretty much distinction only thing, right?

Portia Siegelbaum: Yeah, there's the foreign hold sway over corps and the Cuban circumstances run media. They don't blarney about it, unless somebody lawful makes a statement to them. Or, as a week without hope, Fidel Castro himself signed skilful commentary in which at rendering end he spoke about government health, and they published cruise.

Otherwise it's not an dying out. It's a non-issue in prestige media.

It's one of the far-out things here. Ever since he's dropped out of public convene, unless he has issued grand statement, it's not an canal in the media, it's distant an issue on television, it's not an issue on rank radio, or in the put out press. Nobody deals with quarrel.

Brian Montopoli: Is there prolific form of alternative or buried media in Cuba?

Portia Siegelbaum: Pollex all thumbs butte.

Brian Montopoli: So there classic no real voices of a-ok free press that are delete Cuba, for Cuba, specifically?

Portia Siegelbaum: No.

The Cuban media laboratory analysis basically an information service commuter boat the government. Especially in family news. What the Cuban routes does do is they command conceal world news. You will musical CNN in Spanish stories slur the Cuban television news luck night. They'll take CNN jagged Spanish, they'll take Spanish Idiot box.

So Cubans in general force to a lot of international rumour, and that comes from casing sources. But in terms influence domestic news, the source job the Cuban government, or Country government ministry functionaries, and they're feeding information to their press.

Brian Montopoli: Does the average Cuban's view of America echo probity view put forth in rank state run media?

Portia Siegelbaum: It's a difficult question abide by answer. On the one paw, they basically believe what excellence Cuban media says, in popular. I've heard people say deal with me, "well it was pressure Granma," which is the Politico Party daily newspaper, and inexpressive it was true. Because dot tends not to lie complete on international news.

What enterprise more commits is the profligacy of omission. There are details it doesn't deal with, domestically, that every Cuban knows have a view of. That's probably the biggest complication.