Historian hired by NY Times says 1932 Pulitzer Prize should be rescinded

Associated Press ^ | 10-22-03 | SARA KUGLER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NEW YORK (AP) -- A 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to The New York Times should be revoked, according to a historian hired by the newspaper to review the winning work, which has been questioned for years.

A subcommittee of the Pulitzer Board has been reviewing the prize won by writer Walter Duranty for his series on Russia. The review was sparked by complaints that Duranty deliberately ignored in later coverage the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions of people.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

About time.

[robowombat]

I wonder if Mark Von Hagen could be the son of Victor von Hagen the well known explorer and author active in the 1940-1965 time frame? He was the author of a number of excellent 'popular' but learned summaries such as 'Aztec Man and Tribe' and "Kingdoms of the Sun, the Predecessors to the Incas".

[RKV]

Way past time.

[headsonpikes]

YEE-HAW!!!!!

Who says there's no good news, anymore?

This is definitely 'fit to print'.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Duranty knew of the famine, but ignored the atrocities to preserve his access to Stalin
Not a direct quote, but does sound familiar, doesn't it?
BTW, Pulitzer was a yellow journalist himself, so he'd be proud.

[catpuppy]

Printing lies then. Printing lies now. Some things never change.

[Wayne07]

There is no liberal bias in the press.

Uncle Joe

[Maelstrom]

It would be better to place that series online for our perusal.

Let us decide.

The NYTimes couldn't withstand the scrutiny.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

More vindication of Ann Coulter's perspective on the treasonous history of liberals and 'Rats.

[Burkeman1]

Duranty's portrait still hangs in the New York Times building along side other Pulitzer winners. Pretty sad that Russia has come to terms with their past and the leftists in this country still haven't.

[nightdriver]

Von Hagen's report said Duranty, as a reporter, "fell under Stalin's spell."

Just like CNN withheld the actualities of Iraq from being told so they could keep in Hussein's good graces.

It's for certain that the New York Times would never say anything bad about any communist country. Look how they bow and scrape to Castro's Cuba.

[djf]

I'd go against the grain here and say I think it should not be revoked.

The fact that the prize was awarded, whether it was deserved or not, reflects the spirit and sense of the times. It also enunciates any particular biases that existed. It is a historical event that we can learn from.

[aristeides]

I recently got a copy of the recent book The Trust about the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns the NY Times. Walter Duranty's name does not appear in the index!

According to Thomas Fleming's recent book The Illusion of Victory on Woodrow Wilson and World War One, one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes was given to a reporter on the NY World (Pulitzer's paper) for a fictitious interview he claimed to have conducted with the stroke-incapacitated Woodrow Wilson.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[thinktwice]

Joe Stalin is Hollywood Ed Asner's hero ... According to a World Net Daily article of Oct 10th ...

Here is some text from that article ...

"Mr. Asner, I do have a question – unrelated to the film," I said. "In your long and distinguished acting career, going back to your earliest days in Chicago all the way up to present days working with Will Farrell on 'Elf', you have had the chance to do almost anything you could ever wish to do. But if you had the chance to play the biographical story of a historical figure you respected most over your lifetime, who would it be?"

Remembering the sad story he had told about the poor kids in Chicago, I half expected him to come out with a political name of some sort.

"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner. "And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin."

[aristeides]

"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner. "And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin."

What would happen to somebody who said that about Hitler (who killed fewer people than Stalin)?

[palmer]

Pulitzer Being Reviewed, Fabrications Cited
By Jayson Blair

Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, stared down at his hands behind his antique mahogany desk. "This is a matter under internal review," said Gissler about the 2003 prize, "but you could have gone to Iraq and apologized for Saddam Hussein and we wouldn't be in this mess." This reporter said nothing, having been sent here to collect facts but anticipating the inevitable charges of conflict of interest, yet still hoping to influence the 2004 prize.

"Why the heck did they send you here anyway? You got your damn prize, why can't you just leave me alone?" His voice was starting to get shrill. His hands, now on his desk, were trembling. "I got a wife and two kids to think about. I got my life ahead of me. I just renewed my club membership". Mr. Gissler started to cry softly. An akward silence fell in the room, lasting about a minute. Mr. Gissler reached for his desk drawer, opened it to reveal a gun case. He paused...

[jonascord]

The Leftists/Democrats are only sad that The Revolution happened to such a backward country full of such stupid churls. They are absolutely convinced that, if only They, the Rightful Leaders of the Masses, have the chance, they will show the sub-human Slavs how a True Communist State should be run. If only California didn't have so many Obstructionists...

[Burkeman1]

True. The Leftist history is full of "if only" and "what if" excuses.