Text: 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.
Entailment: Johnson thinks the New York Times was very positive about Fidel Castro's rise to power.
Contradiction: I think the media's attitude toward witch hunts is very reserved.