N.Y. Times a Step Closer to Losing Pulitzer for Stalinist Propaganda

NewsMax ^ | 10/23/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Even the New York Times' own consultant admits the leftist newspaper should be stripped of a Pulitzer Prize it was handed for publishing propaganda for genocidal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Pressured by Ukrainian-Americans and others appalled by Stalin's deliberate starvation of millions Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933, among other atrocities, the paper asked Columbia University history professor Mark von Hagen to examine the coverage of its left-wing stooge Walter Duranty.

'Liberal Values'

Von Hagen noted that Duranty's dispatches were "dull and largely uncritical recitation of Soviet sources."

"That lack of balance and uncritical acceptance of the Soviet self-justification for its cruel and wasteful regime was a disservice to the American readers of The New York Times and the liberal values they subscribe to and to the historical experience of the peoples of the Russian and Soviet empires and their struggle for a better life," the prof wrote.

Executive editor Bill Keller made this curious and syntactically challenged statement:

"It's absolutely true that the work Duranty did, at least as much of it as I've read, was credulous, uncritical parroting of propaganda.

Yet, "As someone who spent time in the Soviet Union while it still existed, the notion of airbrushing history kind of gives me the creeps."

Oh, for once the Times objects to the "airbrushing of history." Considering the paper's support of the attempt to starve Terri Schiavo to death, we're surprised it doesn't refer to the Soviet massacre as just another so-called "right to die" case.

[Always Right]

"It's absolutely true that the work Duranty did, at least as much of it as I've read, was credulous, uncritical parroting of propaganda.

Can we just switch the names of Saddam and Stalin and say the same thing about the NY Times today?

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[laconic]

The NY Times is concerned about "the airbrushing of history" by removing the Pulitzer Prize from this devil? Its reporter, Walter Duranty, airbrushed as many as ten million Ukrainians starved to death by Stalin OUT of history by denying that they ever existed!

[Revolting cat!]

'Nother thread.

[Cicero]

The Times will eventually give in on this one. Walter Duranty has been a badge of shame to them for years. Why should they care about defending some long-dead Stalinist stooge, when their chief priority is to forward the leftist cause today?

It's past time for them to drop Duranty off the back of the sleigh so they can get on with their business of pushing the Revolution. Stalin is dead. It's more important to help Castro and Arafat and other still active progressive leaders.

[elbucko]

Columbia University history professor Mark von Hagen to examine the coverage of its left-wing stooge Walter Duranty.

It's about time. I have often been accused of being an anti-semite when I critically mention the Red Diaper Babies, whose parents and themselves were apologists at best and spies at worst, for Stalin and communism. Walter Duranty was an American of Irish descent. So am I. However, I loath Duranty for being a commie stooge, as much as I loath the Rosenbergs for being commie spies.

The international explosion of social unrest in many parts of the world, during the 1960's, was Soviet inspired, Northern Ireland being one of them. Jerry Adams, of Sinn Fean, is as "Red" as they come and as demented as Che` Guevera. But people like Duranty are worse. For their part, they enable the thugs that accompany any communist movement to commit their terror wholesale, rather than a murder at a time. I hope The NYT sees the witting on the historical wall (yeah, I know) and returns Duranty's Pulitzer. Walter Duranty was nothing more than a "Shanty-Irish" commie and deserves to be recognized as a pariah for the traitor to America, his ancestry and humanity that he was.