Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity

    

                                               Dear Friend,
As I recently teased* on my blog, PJ Media, in conjunction with our good friends at The New Criterion, will be awarding the first annual Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity this fall.
The intention of this award is to highlight the continuing extreme bias and misreporting of many mainstream media outlets. The prize will be given for what our readers consider the most egregious example of dishonest reporting for the fiscal year 2011-2012 (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012).
You can submit your nominations for the first annual Duranty Prize at  http://pjmedia.com/duranty/ .
The prize is named after Walter Duranty, The New York Times' Moscow correspondent in the 1920s and 1930s who whitewashed Joseph Stalin's forced mass starvation of the Ukrainians (the Holodomor) and many other aspects of Soviet oppression.
Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his efforts. Despite numerous attempts by Ukrainian organizations and others, the prize has never been revoked. Duranty's photograph remains in its honored place on The New York Times' wall along with the newspaper's other Pulitzer winners.
We are now accepting nominations for the first annual Duranty Prize at  http://pjmedia.com/duranty/. A Duranty Prize Committee of seven journalists and writers -- including Peter Collier, Roger Kimball, Cliff May, Ron Radosh, Glenn Reynolds, Claudia Rosett and me -- will review the nominations and decide the winner (or winners) to be announced at a ceremony in New York in the fall.
Click here submit your nominations for the first annual Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity. And please invite your friends to submit their nominations, too.


Sincerely,
 Roger L. Simon
http://PJMedia.com

*Pulitzer Prize, Meet the WALTER DURANTY PRIZE

"Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his efforts.

"Despite numerous attempts by Ukrainian organizations and others, the prize has never been revoked. Duranty’s photograph remains in its honored place on the New York Times’ wall along with the newspaper’s other Pulitzer winners.

"The first annual Duranty Prize will be given for what our readers consider the most egregious example of dishonest reporting for the fiscal year 2011-2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012)."

Communist-starved Ukrainians 

Holodomor   "Stalin’s cruel methods included the allocation of astronomic grain requisition quotas that were impossible to meet and which left nothing for the local population to eat. When the quotas were missed, armed units were sent in. Toward the end of 1932, entire villages and regions were turned into a system of isolated starvation ghettos called “black boards.” Throughout this period, the Soviet Union continued to export grain to the west and even used grain to produce alcohol. By early 1933, the Soviet leadership decided to radically reinforce the blockade of Ukrainian villages. Eventually, the whole territory of Ukraine was surrounded by armed forces, turning the entire country into a vast death camp.

President of Ukraine Official Website

I believe Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen still remain silent on this issue