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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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