Incredible movie. And astonishing how topical it is. New York Times and big government killing a story about a brutal dictatorship because powerful business interests are at stake.
The movie could have been set today and featured communist China.
Everyone covers for the dictatorship... and the New York Times leads the way.
A freeper recommended this movie several months ago on a thread and we watched. Incredible piece of history and well done.
Duranty was key to the Roosevelt Administration’s recognition of the Soviet Uniion. The State Department’s Kliefoth memo points out that Duranty admitted that “in agreement with the New York Times and the Soviet authorities’, his official despatches always reflect the official opinion of the Soviet regime. Like CNN head Eason Jordan admitting that he deliberately whitewashed Saddam Hussein’s atrocities. True, but if you mention “fake news” you are a racist.