Justice at last for critic of Stalinism? (Welsh paper vs New York Times Walter Duranty)

The Western Mail ^ | 6/12/03 | Tomos Livingstone

[DPB101]

Full text archive of Gareth Jones' dispatches from Moscow are here (includes articles by Duranty and Malcolm Muggeridge).

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Now a campaign organised by Ukrainians worldwide is putting pressure on the board of the Pulitzer Prize to reconsider Duranty's award.

The campaign has been given added momentum by the present-day problems at the New York Times, where the editor and managing editor have been forced to resign over a scandal involving 27-year-old reporter Jayson Blair

A fitting Sultzburg legacy . . .

[Tacis]

I can't believe this is happening. Who, actually, is leading the charge and how do they have this kind of clout? Duranty is one of the saints of the NYC commies and has been for 70 years. His work helped recruit anti-American spies for years. The comparisons of Pravda with the NYT (see: Georie Jessel) are based on Duranty's rantings and the ultra-leftward leaning of the NYT, and many other old-timee media oulets, is based on the Moscow directed propaganda of Duranty. Amazing! Long, long overdue, but still amazing!

[Grampa Dave]

"A fitting Sultzburg legacy . . ."


cIc, you nailed it with your comment above. That was the first thing that came into my old mind when I read this thread.

Lying is not new with the NY Slimes! Under the Sultzburg's, lying has part of the corporate culture of the NY Slimes for 7 decades.

[68skylark]

I hope that in the near future we'll see some articles about the shamelss support that the New York Times has given to Fidel Castro starting in the late 1950's.

[Tamzee]

Does anyone know where to send a postcard to add to the flood going to Pulitzer?

[friendly]

Duranty was the most disgraceful American journalist in history. (Goebels wins the worldwide honors)

The sooner the Pulitzer is withdrawn, the sooner the rehabilitation of a corrupted media can begin.

[DPB101]

I can't believe this is happening. Who, actually, is leading the charge and how do they have this kind of clout?

I never thought we would see this either. The Ukrainian Weekly (a tiny paper in NJ) called the Pulitzer committee the end of May and asked if Duranty's Pulitzer was under investigation. Their article was posted on FR June 1st. Worldnetdaily and Newsmax soon followed up. Then the New York Sun and last night the AP carried the story. Went international last night.

All of this was prompted by Ukrainian groups noting the 70th anniversary of the genocide.

Harold Denny, who succeeded Duranty in the Times Moscow bureau, should be next on the hit list. Then there is Herbert Matthews and his dispatches from Cuba...then Anthony Lewis and Sydney Schanberg for their support of Pol Pot... then....then....

Anyone know if The Nation has apologized for its reporting on the Holodomor? Louis Fischer was even worse than Duranty.

[blau993]

The Pulitzer board has only ever revoked a prize once, in 1981. Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke's story of an eight-year-old ghetto boy already addicted to heroin was revealed to be a fabrication.

Strictly speaking, this is not accurate. Janet Cooke voluntarily returned her Pulitzer after admitting her fraud, though her prize almost certainly would have been revoked had she not done so.

[DPB101]

'Revoke Walter Duranty's 1932 Pulitzer Prize' - International Protest Campaign:

If you feel that Duranty did not deserve to keep his 1932 Pulitzer Prize and you wish to add your voice to this protest campaign then PRESS HERE, complete the email form that appears and submit it online to the Pulitzer Prize Committee in New York.

[RJL]

Her son Nigel Colley has suggested Gareth Jones should be posthumously awarded the prize.

Seems right to me.

[Tamzee]

Many thanks! I'll add my voice to all the others :-)

[Rodney King]

She said, "Gareth was a man of integrity. He wanted to promote the fact that Stalin, and his five-year plan, was going badly wrong.

Actually, the plan worked as intended.

[HISSKGB]

Referring to the Ochs/Sulzbergers as slime is rather an understatement. Their Uptown Daily Worker has consistently covered up for treacherous communists.

In 1939, they hid the fact the Spanish Civil war was caused by Stalin.

In 1940, the NYT printed a glowing eulogy for the woman who instigated the assassination of President McKinley and others.

Even today they claim McCarthy was wrong about communists infiltrating the government.

[DPB101]

Have a feeling we are going to see smoke rising from New York Times morgue someday soon. There are so many lies within, the paper cannot stand to have anyone document each one.

[Grampa Dave]

Do you have any data re their early support of Lenin and other early communists. I can remember my Grandfather complaining that the Slimes enabled Lenin to grab and maintain power via their support in the era after WWI? That was in the late 1940's and up to the mid 1950's.

Thanks for these reminders:

In 1939, they hid the fact the Spanish Civil war was caused by Stalin.

In 1940, the NYT printed a glowing eulogy for the woman who instigated the assassination of President McKinley and others.

Even today they claim McCarthy was wrong about communists infiltrating the government.

[eleni121]

Oh they knew what was going on - most journalists lie and manipulate the truth and openly admit it! Trash like Amanpour have said that the news should be objectively reported but that it is the journalist's option as to what and how news gets reported...Our leaders knew what was happening in the Soviet Union but Roosevelt for one believed in separating morality and statecraft.

As for the Pulitzer "prize" - the only value the name has is Lili's fashion house.

[1rudeboy]

Who, actually, is leading the charge and how do they have this kind of clout?

Believers tend to die-off. Relatives of the killed tend never to forget.

[DuncanWaring]

Here's the NY Times fawning obituary of ol' Uncle Joe.

[DPB101]

The University of California at Berkeley has a few New York Times articles from 1917 on Emma Goldman,Alexander Berkman,Morris Becker, Louis Kramer and Judge Julius M. Mayer here.

The site has a page devoted to Goldman for Middle and High School students. She is, of course, portrayed as a heroine.