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Historian hired by NY Times says 1932 Pulitzer Prize should be rescinded
Associated Press ^ | 10-22-03 | SARA KUGLER

Posted on 10/22/2003 2:11:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: duranty; journalism; media; nyt; nytimes; pulitzer; times; walterduranty
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To: jonascord
Wasn't there a Communist state in part of Germany for around 40 years?
21 posted on 10/22/2003 3:08:17 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: nightdriver
Just like CNN withheld the actualities of Iraq from being told so they could keep in Hussein's good graces.

And don't forget the fluff pieces that come out of CNN's Havana Bureau.

22 posted on 10/22/2003 3:14:03 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Every award the Times has ever received, with the exception of the coveted Charmin Medal, should be returned.
23 posted on 10/22/2003 3:16:08 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Von Hagen is at Columbia, so he must have been hired by History Dept chair Eric Foner and Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley (the late David Brinkley's son). Both Foner and Brinkley are way to the left, although I suppose there are some screaming lefties a bit to the left of them out there somewhere.

So Sulzberger went to the most accomodating and sympathetic academics he could find and he still got bad news about Duranty's Pulitzer. Looks like the jig is finally up with that fraudulent award.

24 posted on 10/22/2003 3:16:35 PM PDT by beckett
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"For the sake of The New York Times' honor, they should take the prize away," von Hagen said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. The New York Sun first reported the professor's recommendation.

You can't try to restore something the Times has never had...

25 posted on 10/22/2003 3:19:28 PM PDT by NorCoGOP (Appeasement of Evil Empowers Oppression)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The effort was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the 1932-33 famine, which claimed as many as 7 million Ukrainian lives. Josef Stalin's regime created the famine to force Ukrainian peasants into surrendering their land
Shilling for pinkos and reds since its beginning, The New York Times continues to live up to its legacy.
26 posted on 10/22/2003 3:20:33 PM PDT by george wythe
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To: aristeides
If The Germans had been allowed to Guide the Revolution, instead of being a Client State, it would have worked. After all, Marx was German...

No excuse is too lame for socialists.

27 posted on 10/22/2003 3:22:39 PM PDT by jonascord (Don't bother to run, you'll only die tired...)
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To: george wythe
I have a copy of the issue of the NY Times reporting the firing on Fort Sumter. At that time (before the Ochs-Sulzberger family had taken the paper over,) the paper was shilling for the Union, rather than reds.
28 posted on 10/22/2003 3:23:01 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: jonascord
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.

You're quoting my college professors when I had to endured subjects such as sociology, philosophy, English lit, political science, American history, Western Civ, etc

29 posted on 10/22/2003 3:24:35 PM PDT by george wythe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
IIRC, Rigoberto Menchu won the Nobel Prize for literature mostly on the strength of her fanciful (IOW, fraudulent) account of her oppression as a third-world feminist and communist struggling for dignity and life in the Reagan-dominated 1980s. Even after her book was exposed as one long, lugubrious lie, the committee excused and defended her. Does the Pulitzer committee have more integrity than the Nobel committee? That remains to be seen.
30 posted on 10/22/2003 3:24:50 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: nightdriver
Just like CNN withheld the actualities of Iraq from being told so they could keep in Hussein's good graces.

That was my take as well. The old gray whore sure has been going through a bad patch lately.

31 posted on 10/22/2003 3:26:14 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
NY Crime's fawning Stalin obituary
32 posted on 10/22/2003 3:27:08 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: beckett
Both Foner and Brinkley are way to the left, although I suppose there are some screaming lefties a bit to the left of them out there somewhere. So Sulzberger went to the most accomodating and sympathetic academics he could find and he still got bad news about Duranty's Pulitzer. Looks like the jig is finally up with that fraudulent award.

Good Point... :)

33 posted on 10/22/2003 3:27:30 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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To: aristeides
Interesting historical tidbit. I guess since New York was part of the Union, that much was expected.
34 posted on 10/22/2003 3:27:33 PM PDT by george wythe
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To: thinktwice; aristeides
The WND author of that piece, Kevin McCulloough, issued a "partial retraction" (scroll to the bottom) a day or two later. The quote is inaccurate. Asner's actual quote, which can be found at the link, was not sympathetic to Stalin and only suggested that, from the standpoint of a physical resemblance, he (Asner) would be suited to play the part of Stalin in a film.
35 posted on 10/22/2003 3:28:03 PM PDT by beckett
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WOW! D'ya think!

36 posted on 10/22/2003 3:30:42 PM PDT by IGOTMINE (He needed killin')
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To: george wythe


37 posted on 10/22/2003 3:32:55 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: beckett
The WND author....play the part of Stalin in a film.

Point taken...but, IMHO...Ed Asner is still a Anti-American Leftist...pining for the good old days.

38 posted on 10/22/2003 3:37:31 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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To: jimbo123
Bird cage liner material, for sure. Thanks for the link, Jimbo.
39 posted on 10/22/2003 3:41:00 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: george wythe
The softer and more excused from harsh reality a subject is, the more likely that it's teachers are leftist, effeminate, social thugs. Greens are perhaps the worst, since they KNOW, with a conviction that the Pope could envy, that if only they could get rid of people, Nature would take care of itself. Greens being Gods, human extinction is not a worry.

Sometimes I want to walk onto a campus with a Ma Deuce, and hit everyone with a grey beard...

40 posted on 10/22/2003 3:41:08 PM PDT by jonascord (Don't bother to run, you'll only die tired...)
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