14yMedio reports from Havana via Translating Cuba: Cuba: The Challenge of Practicing Journalism in a Dictatorship Being a journalist is not being an activist. Journalism is not called to the ranks of any political party or ideology, but rather to report facts of general interest that prove that they are true, and with a simple
some kind of an agreement that could bring jason and other americans home and that s where i want to see the focus on those leaders to do the right thing. tell me a little bit about jason. he s a gregarious, fun-loving guy who grew up in california. didn t spend much time even thinking about iran even though his dad was an iranian immigrant until after he graduated from college. visited the country, fell in love with it, decided that practicing journalism, helping the two countries get to know one another better would be his life s calling. i went to visit him in june of 2014, six weeks before he was detained. he was at the top of his game. to see him and his wife arrested so soon thereafter and to see this nightmare begun has just been devastating. thank you for being with me. appreciate it. we re also following several new developments in syria this morning. the first one is russian president vladimir putin defending his country s military intervention in syria s civil
tonight, and a washington post spokesperson said that when their reporters tried to enter the door, they were denied entry. the moore campaign didn t say why they have declined to give them credentials to cover this event tonight, but it certainly could have something to do with how the washington post was the first ones to report on these sexual assault allegations made against roy moore, and we have seen the candidate be highly critical of them in the weeks since that was first reported. guilty of practicing journalism, caitlin collins, thank you so much. let s go to alex marquardt. he s at doug jones headquarters, the democrat in birmingham, alabama. alex. reporter: hi, there, jake. doug jones has had a pretty busy day, after voting early this morning on the outskirts of birmingham, he went around to different polling stations, shaging hands with the voters. now with less than an hour before the polls close, he s doing the same. once the polls close, he will come here to th