Cuban Revolution
Phillips had been reporting from Cuba for 20 years when Fidel Castro rose to power. Fellow foreign correspondent and Times editorialist Herbert Matthews believed Phillips "did not measure up to the standards of the Times" and her reports could not be trusted because of her close relationships with the officials in Batista's regime. The two clashed professionally and personally, and the conflict was evident in their reporting. Editors at the Times attempted to mediate the feud, though they felt that Phillips was too anti-Castro and Matthews was too liberal.
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