Take the following as truth: Fidel Castro climbed to power, Johnson informs us, on the back of adulatory news stories in the New York Times . The media have developed an insatiable passion for witch hunts, such as the one that badly distorted Iran Contra stories during the Reagan years.
Then the following statement: "Many US news sources were very positive about Fidel Castro's rise to power." is true, false, or inconclusive?