Pulitzer Prize Board keeps information regarding Duranty review under tight wraps (Freep the Board)

The Ukrainian Weekly | 6/29/03 | Andrew Nynka

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PARSIPPANY, N.J. - The Pulitzer Prize Board, under pressure from an international campaign asking to revoke a 1932 award, has kept information regarding a Pulitzer Board subcommittee review of the award given to The New York Times' Walter Duranty locked tightly behind closed doors.

"I am not going to get into confidential proceedings of an internal review," said Sig Gissler, administrator for the Pulitzer Prizes, during a June 20 telephone interview with The Ukrainian Weekly, which sought to find further details regarding the subcommittee. Nor would the administrator say when a decision on Mr. Duranty's prize could be expected.

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Ukrainian site:

Revoke Walter Duranty's 1932 Pulitzer Prize' - International Protest Campaign

Freeper "mark pelech" has an assortment of Word Docs to print and/or email to the NYTs and Pulitzer Committee here:

Participate in the Campaign to Revoke Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize!

More links and background information here:

Open Letter to revoke Duranty's Pulizer on behalf of Gareth Jones (bad PR for the New York Times) ^

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The people who control the Pulitzer Prizes have always been leftists, as the nature of the awards makes clear. They will only vacate the Duranty award if they are sufficiently embarrassed to decide that it's now doing more harm than good to their agenda.

If they give in once, they are likely to be asked to give in again, since numerous egregious choices have been made over the years, although Duranty is probably the worst. So they will be reluctant to seem to give in under conservative pressure.

This issue definitely needs as much publicity as it can get.

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The people who control the Pulitzer Prizes have always been leftists, as the nature of the awards makes clear.

Finding that out...lol. Researching Eleanor Roosevolt last night, I stumbled upon Joseph Lash (1909-1987) who received a Pulitzer for a book on his good friend Eleanor.

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Researching Eleanor Roosevolt last night, I stumbled upon Joseph Lash (1909-1987) who received a Pulitzer for a book on his good friend Eleanor.

..and Co-founder w/ ER of The A.D.A....were The Weathermen...the ARMED wing, the the A.D.A.?

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Yup...direct line from Lash to the Weathermen. All one big liberal party. But none of them are communists..not really...just idealists you see. Activists. People making a difference, giving something back, reaching out, reaching down, reaching all around.