Historian hired by NY Times says 1932 Pulitzer Prize should be rescinded

Associated Press ^ | 10-22-03 | SARA KUGLER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NEW YORK (AP) -- A 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to The New York Times should be revoked, according to a historian hired by the newspaper to review the winning work, which has been questioned for years.

A subcommittee of the Pulitzer Board has been reviewing the prize won by writer Walter Duranty for his series on Russia. The review was sparked by complaints that Duranty deliberately ignored in later coverage the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions of people.

[aristeides]

Wasn't there a Communist state in part of Germany for around 40 years?

[Polybius]

Just like CNN withheld the actualities of Iraq from being told so they could keep in Hussein's good graces.

And don't forget the fluff pieces that come out of CNN's Havana Bureau.

[IronJack]

Every award the Times has ever received, with the exception of the coveted Charmin Medal, should be returned.

[beckett]

Von Hagen is at Columbia, so he must have been hired by History Dept chair Eric Foner and Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley (the late David Brinkley's son). Both Foner and Brinkley are way to the left, although I suppose there are some screaming lefties a bit to the left of them out there somewhere.

So Sulzberger went to the most accomodating and sympathetic academics he could find and he still got bad news about Duranty's Pulitzer. Looks like the jig is finally up with that fraudulent award.

[NorCoGOP]

"For the sake of The New York Times' honor, they should take the prize away," von Hagen said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. The New York Sun first reported the professor's recommendation.

You can't try to restore something the Times has never had...

[george wythe]

The effort was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the 1932-33 famine, which claimed as many as 7 million Ukrainian lives. Josef Stalin's regime created the famine to force Ukrainian peasants into surrendering their land

Shilling for pinkos and reds since its beginning, The New York Times continues to live up to its legacy.

[jonascord]

If The Germans had been allowed to Guide the Revolution, instead of being a Client State, it would have worked. After all, Marx was German...

No excuse is too lame for socialists.

[aristeides]

I have a copy of the issue of the NY Times reporting the firing on Fort Sumter. At that time (before the Ochs-Sulzberger family had taken the paper over,) the paper was shilling for the Union, rather than reds.

[george wythe]

They are absolutely convinced that, if only They, the Rightful Leaders of the Masses, have the chance, they will show the sub-human Slavs how a True Communist State should be run.

You're quoting my college professors when I had to endured subjects such as sociology, philosophy, English lit, political science, American history, Western Civ, etc

[JCEccles]

IIRC, Rigoberto Menchu won the Nobel Prize for literature mostly on the strength of her fanciful (IOW, fraudulent) account of her oppression as a third-world feminist and communist struggling for dignity and life in the Reagan-dominated 1980s. Even after her book was exposed as one long, lugubrious lie, the committee excused and defended her. Does the Pulitzer committee have more integrity than the Nobel committee? That remains to be seen.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Just like CNN withheld the actualities of Iraq from being told so they could keep in Hussein's good graces.

That was my take as well. The old gray whore sure has been going through a bad patch lately.

[jimbo123]

NY Crime's fawning Stalin obituary

[skinkinthegrass]

Both Foner and Brinkley are way to the left, although I suppose there are some screaming lefties a bit to the left of them out there somewhere. So Sulzberger went to the most accomodating and sympathetic academics he could find and he still got bad news about Duranty's Pulitzer. Looks like the jig is finally up with that fraudulent award.

Good Point... :)

[george wythe]

Interesting historical tidbit. I guess since New York was part of the Union, that much was expected.

[beckett]

The WND author of that piece, Kevin McCulloough, issued a "partial retraction" (scroll to the bottom) a day or two later. The quote is inaccurate. Asner's actual quote, which can be found at the link, was not sympathetic to Stalin and only suggested that, from the standpoint of a physical resemblance, he (Asner) would be suited to play the part of Stalin in a film.

[IGOTMINE]

WOW! D'ya think!

[jimbo123]

[skinkinthegrass]

The WND author....play the part of Stalin in a film.

Point taken...but, IMHO...Ed Asner is still a Anti-American Leftist...pining for the good old days.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Bird cage liner material, for sure. Thanks for the link, Jimbo.

[jonascord]

The softer and more excused from harsh reality a subject is, the more likely that it's teachers are leftist, effeminate, social thugs. Greens are perhaps the worst, since they KNOW, with a conviction that the Pope could envy, that if only they could get rid of people, Nature would take care of itself. Greens being Gods, human extinction is not a worry.

Sometimes I want to walk onto a campus with a Ma Deuce, and hit everyone with a grey beard...