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Notes on Walter Duranty
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- 1930s: Walter Duranty, The New York Times Soviet
correspondent, ignores the brutality of Stalin's regime, telling
readers at one point that no one in Ukraine is starving when, in fact,
millions were dying. http://www.msnbc.com/news/914096.asp?0nw=n2d
- Prize Specimen The campaign to revoke Walter
Duranty’s Pulitzer. Andrew
Stuttaford on Walter Duranty & Pulitzer on National Review
Online
- "Journalist Walter Duranty was a working-class
English socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while
stationed in Paris. Within months of Duranty arriving in Moscow as a
correspondent for the "New York Times" the Romanovs were deposed, but
he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the
Western Colony. His newspaper career was equally glittering - his 1929
interview with Stalin won him the Pulitzer Prize and his articles
played a prominent role in gaining American recognition for the USSR in
1933. However, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly
selective. He hushed up the Great Famine of the early 1930s and glossed
over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the
"Times" in the late 1930s. Sally Taylor's biography of this flamboyant
individual also explores the source and content of the news the West
received between the World Wars, and raises issues about the role of
the Press in modern society." Amazon.com:
Editorial Reviews: Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York
Times Man in Moscow
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Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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