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This is who the New York Times is. And it goes back a long way.

Walter Duranty, their man in the Soviet Union through the Twenties and Thirties, actively discounted Stalin's famine (even though he knew it was really happening)

Here are some quotes from a Washington Examiner article Pulitzer-Winning Lies (Quotes the New York Times has NEVER repudiated):

"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1

"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."
--New York Times, August 23, 1933

"Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin's program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding."
--New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6

"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs."
--New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18

"There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition."
--New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13

Here is another excerpt from that same article

"...I would like to add another Duranty quote, not in his dispatches, which is reported in a memoir by Zara Witkin, a Los Angeles architect, who lived in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. ("An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934," University of California Press ). The memoirist describes an evening during which the Moscow correspondents were discussing how to get out the story about the Stalin-made Russian famine. To get around the censorship, the UP's Eugene Lyons was telephoning the dire news of the famine to his New York office but the was ordered to stop because it was antagonizing the Kremlin. Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune reporter, turned to Duranty and asked him what he was going to write. Duranty replied:

"Nothing. What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated."

And this was at a time when peasants in Ukraine were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 a day..."

And this is only from their star reporter on the famine. His coverage of the show trials was even more nauseating and sycophantic to the Soviets. Pretty much says it all about the New York Times.

Add to this their active non-coverage or open denial of the Holocaust as it occurred, and the picture is complete.