Posted on 10/22/2003 2:11:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
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Kind of. I worked for a few years at the first paper owned by Joseph Pulitzer before he went on to run the St Louis Post-Dispatch.He got into the editor/publisher business after returning to civilian life following his tour as a Union officer during the Civil War. Long after his time in this world, of course.
If he were around to speak his mind about what came to pass with the once-exaulted award established in his name, I do not think his comments would be pretty. From what I've read of and by him, he reminds me of a couple of editors I've had in that respect.
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Today, incidentally, is the anniversary of the beginning of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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