For years, the media watchdog group Accuracy in Media has sought to set the record straight regarding Duranty, his reporting and his Pulitzer… A.I.M. approached both the Times and the Pulitzer Prize administrator about the issue. In a 1999 letter, Reed Irvine, chairman of A.I.M., pointed out that Duranty received special favors from Stalin's government, including a car and a mistress, designed to ensure the correspondent's cooperation.
This has nothing to do with Jayson Blair. As the article shows, AIM has been working on this since at least 1999.
How distinguished is an award that was awarded to a journalist who was being bribed to cover up the deaths of ten million people?
Removing the Pulitzer from Duranty and the New York Times is the correct action to take.