A surreal encounter with Ricky Martin
The Puerto Rican superstar, I discovered, could not disappoint a fan.
It is a parable for the decline of the mainstream media: About 25 years ago, I was the bureau chief of the Associated Press for the Caribbean, based in Puerto Rico, where we published an entire local news service in Spanish and employed some two dozen staffers. Today I am no longer with AP, and AP no longer has a significant bureau in Puerto Rico. Not a…
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