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Thursday, October 23, 2003

Media dreck - nothing new

As Bret points out in Americans Are Losing the Victory, media portrayal of events or circumstances can be wildly misleading. Going back even further in time, New York Times columnist Walter Duranty reported how terrific things were in Stalin's paradise.

Duranty reported that Soviet citizens celebrated their “freedom” from religion by increasing factory production on religious holidays.

"...Duranty’s 1931 pieces were “very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s style of self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project.”

Though Duranty has achieved lasting posthumous fame for covering up the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 in which as many as 10 million people died, the Pulitzer was awarded for his writing in 1931.

As reported here, Duranty might be stripped of his Pulitzer.

2 comments:

erp said...

Alas Anon, Durante can no longer benefit from the magic beans you list.

Durante was indeed a despicable human being.

Anonymous said...

I should email my pal about it.