from the ideal or ideological cliches what is cuba really like to discuss that i'm now joined by john alpert the american journalist and documentary filmmaker so it's good to see you in our studios think you're much for coming thanks for inviting me i appreciate it now you are here in russia to promote a documentary called cuba and the cameramen reach i think is a very straightforward and a very honest title because you really show cuba as you've experienced it over what is it forty five forty five years and i think this is very unusual for a western north american journalist because most of them believe that you need to cover stories from the position of either neutral observer and so often from a position of judgment rather than experience or emotion of why did you break that tradition i wanted american people to really experience what the cuban revolution was like and it's complicated and i don't think you can understand this in a ninety second news report i don't think you can understand it in twenty ninety second news reports i spent forty five years following three families and castro

telling them what was obvious i'm here i'm lying son that people are shooting at me and my name is john alpert and i'm working for n.b.c. news i looked at that and i said you know what that's the last stand up on there but i never i never did another one i was so ashamed of myself because all i was doing was copycatting you know they all wear the same clothes they wear the trench coats in the winter they wear the safari suits and they walk around with briefcases and question what the heck is in their briefcases you know what it is speak up and they spend the whole day waiting for the sun to get into the right position they've got somebody standing there with the tray to reflect them they are there on the balcony well i think so shame on them and here awards to people who go do something different and it's and it's not just the american reporters seen the russian reporters i've seen people like this all over the world and there seems good reporters from every single country who will get dirty and will try to understand what the people are doing well. definitely on that i just. a minute left and

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