More like CASTRO himself, he would have been parading before the cameras and of course CNN would have been right there. Then again with last stages of PARKINSON...it's not a pretty picture.
Pope John Paul II was able to make appearances until just before his death. If alive, Castro could be made up, placed in a chair and shown from a distance for a minute or less -- the American media would be more than happy to edit anything negative out as long as they could verify the footage (i.e. they would want to be there and see for themselves that he was really alive). None of this has happened, so my guess is that it can't because he's either dead or so close to death the best they could show was a dying man in a hospital bed.