Pulitzer-winning Lies (from The New York Times)

The Weekly Standard ^ | 6/12/03 | Arnold Beichman

[DPB101]

In 1933, Duranty wrote an article for the New York Times calling the dispatches of the Welsh newspaper, The Western Mail, incorrect and the paper's investigative reporter, Gareth Jones, "hasty" in his reporting on the Holodomor.

The Western Mail is still in business and published this article today on Duranty and Jones:

Justice at last for critic of Stalinism? (Welsh paper vs New York Times Walter Duranty)

[Susannah]

Now that would be something if a NY Times reporter from that era lost his Pulitzer Prize!

[DPB101]

Neat that two weeks ago, Duranty was not even mentioned and now he is front and center. Most Americans of that era who know of him believe he was a great man.

My mom is 85. She reregistered as a Republican when she was 78 (Clinton did that) and I had to tell her Duranty was not the person she thought he was. She is so mad at the BS she was sold, she may live for ever. Or at least until there are no more members of her former party alive.

[nopardons]

Never fear, Joe is finally smiling and has stopped whirling as much. :-)

Snowballs and ice skating in HELL ? I'm delighted ... tickled pink !

Hurrah for your mother. It's NEVER too late, apparently. :-)

[Fracas]

Poor, poor NYT. Caught in the unfortunate media spotlight, shining with laser like brightness in all the dark corners previously hidden from ordinary mortals.

They asked for 'tips' and guess what...they got 'em'. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Only problem is, as you've been pointing out for several weeks, they did a lot of damage through the years ... with no accountability.

Congrats to your Mom. Maybe a little encouragement from her son? LOL.

[DPB101]

How do we get into the New York Times morgue?

Forget Skull and Bones, Prescott Bush, his two companions and Geronimo's skull. There is a virtual catacomb of skulls to collect in the morgue of the New York Times.

[NormsRevenge]

bump it Up!

[Grampa Dave]

This is truly amazing re this remark:

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.

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

At this time the NY Slimes is ignoring the mass murders of 6 million innocent Iraqis by their buddy $oddomite, so they can play up the non issue of no WMDs "yet"!

[Grampa Dave]

A couple of weeks ago there were only a handful of us on FR who knew about this farce of a Pulitizer by a liar working for the communist infected NY Slimes in the 1930's.

Now, reality is finally getting traction after 7 decades.

Hopefully the lies about Iraq and President Bush and ignoring the mass murder of 6 million innocent Iraqis by $oddomite and his thugs will not take 70 years for the replay of reality.

[DPB101]

This is truly amazing re this remark

I will spend the rest of my life calling to account those who lied to me when I was a kid.

[Tall_Texan]

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

All the other Duranty quotes appear to be outright lies and yet this is simply an old expression I've heard in other contexts many times. How is this quote a lie?

[DPB101]

Good point. The writer got off track. The quote only makes sense when Duranty's entire dispatch from Moscow is read:

The New York Times, Friday March 31st 1933.

[Liz]

.....at least until there are no more members of her former party alive.......

Now there's a comforting thought.

[aristeides]

In her exposé "Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty, the New York Times's man in Moscow," S.J. Taylor makes it clear that Carr Van Anda, the managing editor, Frederick T. Birchall, an assistant managing editor, and Edwin L. James, the later managing editor, were troubled with Duranty's Moscow reporting but did nothing about it. Birchall recommended that Duranty be replaced but, says Taylor, "the recommendation fell by the wayside."

Looks like Duranty was being protected by the publisher. Did Arthur Hays Sulzberger have some business interest in Stalin's Soviet Union?

[summer]

Very interesting. Thanks for the ping here.

[Liz]

The Duranty journo fraud story is still unfolding.

[Grampa Dave]

He and Armand Hammer were probably good friends.

The Slimes has a long and positive relationship with communists like Lennin on his stay in the states to how Castro has been made to look like a wonderful leader.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for the post and the ping! Saddam's mentor, Stalin. Baathist Socialist Party is the full name - which may explain why so many on the left - the press, in Europe, America, around the world watched the celebrating Iraqi people on April 9 with disgust.

Passing it on.

Tales of Saddam's Brutality [lengthy, graphic, White House websight] (includes lengthy press/Senate e-mail contact list) 

[reformed_democrat]

I will spend the rest of my life calling to account those who lied to me when I was a kid.

The democrats made a huge mistake. They should have euthanized us before we got away.
Now they have to deal with thousands of us who:

1. Were trained by them.
2. Know how they operate.
3. Have vowed to get even for being made to look like fools.

[DPB101]

lol....your screen name is apt.

I never believe in the cause but was affected in even a worse way--demoralized. America was no good, there was no point in trying to get ahead because the system was rigged. You know the script I am sure.

My parents were Democrats but solid anticommunists and Cold Warriors. But from elementary school on my teachers preached that the Soviet Union was not a real threat. What I learned at home was mocked at school.