Posted on 11/26/2005 3:33:03 PM PST by Isara
Media: It wasn't covered by The New York Times, but the Ukrainian protest outside the Times building was news fit to print.
Haven't heard anything about the hourlong demonstration on Nov. 18? Few have. The establishment media ignored the Ukrainians' protest against the Pulitzer Prize that Times correspondent Walter Duranty got in 1932 for his reporting on Josef Stalin's Soviet Union in 1931. Our search could not turn up a single instance of news coverage of this event.
Seems like the Times could at least have sent an intern downstairs to make note of the demonstration. ..... But we understand. Why should the Times call attention to one of its darkest blots — Duranty's pro-Soviet coverage and the prestigious prize he was awarded for his efforts?
Duranty, who covered the USSR for the Times from 1922 to 1940, was more propagandist than objective journalist, an apologist who felt the murderous Soviet means justified the ends.
In one of his more outrageous lies, Duranty denied that the Stalin-manipulated Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 even took place. "Any report of a famine in Russia today is an exaggeration or malignant," he wrote.
In fact, Stalin purposely starved 6 million to 10 million Ukrainians through a famine he brought about through forced collectivist farming.
Two years ago, the Pulitzer Prize committee had a chance to revoke Duranty's award. But it couldn't bring itself to do so. Nor has the Times been able to repudiate the prize, as suggested by a Columbia University professor hired by the newspaper to examine Duranty's work. The professor found that Duranty often walked the Communist Party line and excused Soviet excesses. So Duranty's image is still displayed in the Times' hall of portraits.
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....the Times won't do the right thing because somewhere deep down it feels Duranty was justified in advancing Stalin's "noble" cause.
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Of course not. The MSM really is communist, whether they realize it or not. Infiltration into the schools.
Buy ammo.
You are right. The reason they always support Communist dictators is clear. They are Communists themselves.
The NYT also sets the news cycle. If it isn't in the Times, it isn't in the press. If they don't report it, the rest of the MSM will never see it.
Ain't that the truth. Which is why Duranty's lies were so damaging.
News to me. Not that the NYT has a long history of pro-communist behavior, but that the Ukranians protested. The NYT should show a smidgeon of class and disavow soviet agent Duranty.
Heck, I'm still waiting for the NYT to cover the story of Hillary's campaign finance violations, and the indictment of David Rosen.
"...but that the Ukranians protested."
the Ukranians aren't the darlings of the Left in the same way that the black South Africans were in the '80's, or the Palestinians have been, or maybe the Falung Gong was in the '90's.
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It was well reported in the blogosphere.
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