But the Cubans are different. They are outside the umbrella of newsroom protection, and the reason is obvious. It isn't just communism or Fidel Castro. Cuban-Americans are generally conservative on social issues and seem unusually allergic to political correctness and victim politics. No wonder the media are appalled.
Journalists now identify with the rich in a way they perhaps never have before.
If great wealth was obscene in the 1980s, it ought to be 10 times more obscene today, when the big dollars are piling up higher and faster. But at the major media outlets, at least, journalists can't bring themselves to see it that way. A lot of writing still warns about the dangers of rising economic inequality, but that is oddly combined with softball coverage of the newly rich. After all, these are the people whom reporters went to school with and who share their cultural and social attitudes. The news business frets a lot about its sins.