Historian hired by NY Times says 1932 Pulitzer Prize should be rescinded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

[beckett]

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

He most certainly is an anti-American leftist pining for the good ol' days of the Soviet Union. No quarrel from me there. I would even go so dar as to say that he would welcome a script that tried to portray Stalin in as favorable a light as possible.

But McCullough in his original commentary said he asked Asner, "Who do you respect, etc...?" In fact McCullough never mentioned "respect" in the actual question to Asner, so it is unfair to infer from that interview that Asner "respects" Stalin.

That was my point in posting the correction.

[Stallone]

Duranty knew of the famine but ignored the atrocities to preserve his access to Stalin.

CNN's Eason Jordan is today's Duranty.

The Libs are mother-fuQkers.

[aristeides]

When I said "shilling," I meant "shilling." That particular issue of the NY Times was extremely critical of either the NY Herald or the NY Tribune -- I forget which -- whichever one Horace Greeley was not at -- for not being sufficiently pro-Union. The NY Times was much more pro-Union than it needed to be.

[aristeides]

Thanks. Robert Duvall, as I recall, did a very good job of portraying Stalin.

[Burkeman1]

Chicago papers have to stop printing the Truth! Why is it that Chicago papers are really the best in the country for the truth? They were right on when they printed the "rainbow" leak from FDR's war planners on how they intended to invade and occupy Germany on December 4th 1941. And they were right in questioning what FDR knew and when he knew it about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

[jimbo123]

Here's the full story from the Chicago American including photos. Remember, the Duranty and his NY Times enablers poopooed this report.

http://www.faminegenocide.com/chicago1.html

http://www.faminegenocide.com/chicago2.html

[Burkeman1]

Great links. Thanks!

[Fifth Business]

Good post. Here's an excerpt from the NYT obituary:

But those who survived the purges hailed Stalin as a supreme genius.

Imagine that!

[Mustang]

"...serious lack of balance in his (NYT's) writing..."

The great gray lady has always been "red"...no surprises here.

[tracer]

Tradition!! Tradition!!

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

Foremost in a long list of NYT fiction to be "rescinded".

[SJackson]

Duranty knew of the famine, but ignored the atrocities to preserve his access to Stalin
Not a direct quote, but does sound familiar, doesn't it?

Yes.

The CanaaniteNewsNetwork uses the same excuse.

[Verginius Rufus]

No, Mark Von Hagen is not the son of Victor Von Hagen. I don't know who Mark's parents are, but I found the entry for Victor in an old Who's Who. Victor had one daughter by his first wife, and two daughters by his second wife; no sons listed.

Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen was born on February 29, 1908, in St. Louis. Mark earned his bachelor's degree in 1976, so he was probably born about 1954.

[mrustow]

Von Hagen? With a name from the nobility, he has no standing to judge the workers' paradise!

[wolficatZ]

 

 

In the early 1930s Stalin imposed a deadly famine on the Ukraine in order to stifle Ukrainian nationalism and the resistance of its peasants to collectivization. About 5,000,000 Ukrainians died of starvation and associated diseases, all in effect murdered by Stalin. There are few photographs of the victims on the internet, and some of what I could find have been shown in the other rooms. Here is the face of one victim, a starving, emaciated boy. Given the death toll of this famine, he probably died as well. Documentation: Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder. Source: "Black Famine In Ukraine 1932-33: A Struggle For Existence, " by Andrew Gregorovich.

 

 

[wolficatZ]

Members of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize Board:     Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University Andrew Barnes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, St. Petersburg Times Amanda Bennett, Editor, Lexington Herald-Leader Louis D. Boccardi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Associated Press Joann Byrd, Editor of the Editorial Page, Seattle Post-Inteligencer John S. Carroll, Editor and Executive Vice President, Los Angeles Times Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Harvard University Donald E. Graham, Chairman, The Washington Post Anders Gyllenhaal, Editor and Senior Vice President, Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul Jay T. Harris, Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, University of Southern California David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University David A. Klatell, Interim Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University Richard Oppel, Editor, Austin American-Statesman Rena Pederson, Editor at Large, The Dallas Morning News Mike Pride, Editor, Concord (N.H.) Monitor Sandra Mims Rowe, Editor, The Oregonian William Safire, Columnist, The New York Times Paul Steiger, Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal Sig Gissler, Administrator, Graduate School of Journalism

[Verginius Rufus]

There is some excellent material on the man-made famine in the Ukraine in Ryszard Kapuscinski's book Imperium (which is about the Soviet Empire, including his memories of WWII, as a young schoolboy, in Soviet-occupied Poland).

[wolficatZ]

Thanks for the referral,I see it's available at the local library, going to pick it up this weekend.

[Travis McGee]

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