Fifty years ago today, The New York Times ran a front-page love letter to Fidel Castro at a crucial moment in the Stalinist thug’s drive to take control of the Cuban people. Timesman Herbert … ...

Fidel Castro is not only not a Communist, he is decidedly anti-Communist.” (Herbert Matthews, New York Times, July 1959.) (Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Che Guevara, by the way, had a KGB ...

THE New York Times on Saturday published an interesting story out of Havana, where Fidel Castro was hosting a conference on the 40th anniversary of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Presented at… ...

"There is no thrill in journalism like getting a scoop, and this was the biggest scoop of our times. Professionally speaking, no one can ever take that away from me." For Veteran New York ...

Herbert Matthews with Fidel Castro in New York City in 1960. But surely he is the patron saint of bad journalism. He literally owes his half-century as Cuban dictator to a fanboy New York Times ...

Two years later, with a Cuban version of Poland’s Katyn massacre in full swing (and directed by the same Soviets for the same reason), The New York Times's veritable Herbert Matthews double ...

A movie about journalist Herbert Matthews's relationship with Fidel Castro is in the works. It will be based on the book The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba And Herbert Matthews by New York ...

Long before the rise of fake Facebook news, stories by The New York Times' Herbert Matthews portrayed Fidel as a genial democrat.

Fidel Castro obituaries last week noted how New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews resurrected his career with sycophantic profiles in 1957 that cast the young guerrilla fighting to overthrow ...

On Feb. 24, 1957, one of the 20th century’s greatest scoops appeared on the New York Times’ front page: “Fidel Castro, the rebel leader of Cuba’s youth, is alive and fightin… ...