The New York Times — Defending Murderous Dictators Since Walter Duranty

Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba’s Constitution…this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist. (Herbert Matthews, New York Times Feb. 1957.)

This is not a Communist Revolution in any sense of the term. Fidel Castro is not only not a Communist, he is decidedly anti-Communist. (Herbert Matthews, New York Times, July 1959)

I have never been a communist. It gives me great pain to be called a Communist (Che Guevara,quoted without rebuttal or snarks by the New York Times January 4, 1959.)