Walter Duranty Would Be Proud Of How The Press Covered For Biden

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"No one should buy it. This was journalistic malpractice, pure and simple. It’s time to scrap the Pulitzer Prize and start issuing the more appropriate Duranty Prize for flagrant attempts to lie to and mislead the public to push a leftist agenda."

Duranty was the MSNBC of the 1930s

"Five years too late, the Wall Street Journal finally reports – when it no longer matters – what journalists knew all along but covered up: Joe Biden was not mentally fit to be president.

"The mainstream media’s disservice to the public ranks right up there with Walter Duranty’s New York Times reporting, in which he fed Soviet Union propaganda to the U.S. as news and helped cover up the hellscape that was Stalin’s Russia. (The New York Times never returned the Pulitzer Prize that Duranty won for his lies.)

"Except in this case, it wasn’t one reporter halfway around the world in a closed society. It was a legion of reporters inside the White House.

"The Journal report reads as though it’s the result of hard investigative work. “This account of how the White House functioned with an aging leader at the top of its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly 50 people, including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of the operations,” it says.  "Bullsh-t."

"The Journal’s story is just a catalog of what reporters knew – or must have known – all along but refused to tell the public.

"Remember, these are reporters who are as close to a president as you can get. They hear all the White House gossip. They see the president up close every day. They knew how bad he was. They knew he was being protected by a close-knit group of advisers. They knew that the staff was frustrated, and lawmakers concerned. They just covered it up on Biden’s behalf. And the party’s.

"Not only did they refuse to cover these things, they attacked anyone who dared suggest that Biden was incapable of carrying out his duties. When Biden slurred, stumbled, tripped, mumbled, or did something that so obviously showed his frailty, the mainstream press, including the reporters at the Wall Street Journal, would rush out stories about how he was full of vim and vigor.

"The Journal also pretends that the White House efforts to insulate Biden were so effective that reporters had no idea what was going on." . . .

We urge you to sign the petition to deprive Walter Duranty of the Pulitzer Prize | National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide   "Walter Duranty is a famous journalist, a special correspondent of the New York Times in Moscow, who contributed to the concealment and denial of the Holodomor. His materials from the early 1930s are a clear example of disinformation that helped the communist regime hide the facts of mass starvation from the world. Regretfully, in 1932, Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize – the most prestigious journalistic award for a series of reports about life in the USSR.

"In 2021, the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Awareness initiated a petition to revoke Walter Duranty of the Pulitzer Prize. To date, more than 10,000 people have signed it." . . .  Tunnel Wall has posted about the Holodomor previously.

Starving children in Ukraine, 1930s

Can we give ABC the Walter Duranty Award?

Referring to The Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity

. . ."The award is given to highlight egregious examples of dishonest reporting. Also awarded this year was the Rather, a new award for lifetime achievement in mendacious journalism.
The Duranty Prize is named after Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow corresponded in the 1920s and 1930s who whitewashed Joseph Stalin’s forced starvation of the Ukrainians (the Holodomor) and many other aspects of Soviet oppression. Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his efforts. It has never been revoked." . . .  

"His biographer goes further, calling him Stalin’s Apologist."  David Boaz

AF Branco

Now, on to my nomination for this award:  Tom Cotton scolds ABC News for 'outrageous' debate handling after new video surfaces: 'Beyond bias' (msn.com)    . . ."There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. All have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. We also have action in the Red Sea. Also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid," she said." . . .

Military experts reject Harris' claim of 'no US soldiers in combat zones' as misleading | Fox News   . . ."The Pentagon told Fox News Digital service that members are stationed in various dangerous locations but noted that those deployments are made by the Executive Branch and not due to wars declared by Congress.

"An aspect of military service includes serving in locations where hostile actions may occur," a Defense Official said. "Those locations are designated by executive order and/or the Secretary of Defense."

" 'However, it’s important to note that just because a service member is in one of these locations does not mean they are engaged in war," the official added. "The U.S. is not currently engaged in a war and does not have troops fighting in active war zones anywhere in the world." . . .

                      Brutal fact check on Kamala Harris delivered by American soldiers

Putin hopes to expose Biden's crime wave in Ukraine

Lastly, one more bad thing that will almost certainly come out of this. Just like my high school days, when bullies sense weakness, they immediately attack. China is watching closely. If Putin takes Ukraine, outplays and humiliates Biden, China will absolutely invade Taiwan. 

Wayne Allyn Root; WND  There are so many complex reasons for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. And so many outcomes yet to be determined – sadly, all of them bad for the USA.

"First, let me tell you a personal story that explains the psychology of Putin. I grew up the only white Jewish kid attending an almost all-black middle school and then a 90% black high school. Needless to say, I was the favorite target of bullies.

"I know liberals haven't a clue about this, but whoever is in the minority in life gets tortured, intimidated and unfortunately, gets their a– kicked. A lot. That's a fact of life.

"Therefore, I got tortured, intimidated and beaten up on a daily basis. The bullies at my school stole my lunch, beat me in the bathrooms and chased me home after school.

"Most weak kids never change. I'm one of the lucky ones. A tough gang member took pity on me and taught me how to fight and defend myself. After a summer of brutal hand-to-hand combat training with my newfound tough friend, I vowed never to be intimidated again. I showed up at school ready to defend myself.". . .

. . ."No bully ever touched me again. As a matter of fact, many of those tough guys and bullies became my buddies. I gained their respect.

"The lesson is "peace through strength." Only by being tougher than the other guy can you avoid conflict.

"That perfectly describes former President Donald J. Trump. I can picture Trump telling Putin, "If you attack Ukraine, we will bomb Russia to oblivion. Don't try me." And Putin never did. Putin behaved while Trump was president." . . .

Trump knew how to handle Putin, while Biden has no clue | Israel National News - Arutz Sheva  . . ."We know three things about Putin and Ukraine, and whether Zelensky is going to end up killed or locked in the Gulag for the rest of his life, and whether more Ukrainians next will die at Putin’s initiative than have been slaughtered since Stalin mass-murdered as many as seven million during the Holodomor with the active and criminal assistance of New York Times Russia bureau chief Walter Duranty:

1. None of the present mess happened when Donald Trump was president.

2. Vladimir Putin played by the rules of international comity throughout the Trump years.

3. Biden came in, demonstrated his and Antony Blinken’s foreign affairs chops in Afghanistan, and the whole house of cards came crashing down.

"This was predictable from an incompetent who, in but one year, has presided over a complete breakdown of the social order. America successfully was rehabilitating from four Obama years of rot and decay, and Biden has proven transformative, introducing chaos marked by America suffering a severe nationwide collapse in urban law and order, a parallel breakdown at the southern border, historic inflation and economic dysfunctioning, a racial-based social cacophony that has undone racial harmony that reigned only a few years before, a cultural collapse in public education that sees children brainwashed to worry about personal pronouns and whether they are incorrectly gendered bodies while being taught lies in history and corrupted math.". . .

Ukraine’s finest hour; About the Holodomor: A look at the Ukrainians anger toward Russia

 The Aspen beat

. . ."Ukraine is not Britain. Ukraine lies not as a naturally protected island of civilization, but at the crossroads of cultures – the juncture of two continents, Europe and Asia. It’s a precarious place.

"Ukraine is largely Slavic in an anthropological sense, as is, to varying extents, Western Russia along with Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia and, to a lesser extent, the Baltic republics . But that doesn’t mean Ukraine is Russian. Russia is a nationality; Slav is an ethnicity.

"Russia’s claim to Ukraine is approximately the same as Britain’s claim to the United States or Ukraine’s claim to Poland. Which is to say, Russia’s claim is no claim at all.

"And so, to my friends who say that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rightly seeks to “reunite Russia,” I say you’re full of it. You know just enough about anthropology and history to be dangerous, and just enough about morality to be impenetrably amoral.

"Ukrainians know this. They know who they are, and they know they’re not Russian. They struggled under the yoke of totalitarian Russian rule for the better part of a century. They finally broke free along with the rest of eastern Europe upon the inevitable but long-awaited fall of the Soviet Union. They have no desire, and do not deserve, to become a vassal state of backward, tyrannical Russia again.

"The Ukrainians want freedom, and they’re earning it every hour. They’ve risked everything in defying one of the mightiest armies the world has seen. They’ve driven them out of Kyiv, they’ve denied them Kharkiv.. . ."

Ukrainians hated Russia and welcomed German invaders at first   Then the Nazis blew it all by murdering Ukrainians wholesale.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 is remembered as Hitler’s most catastrophic military mistake. But in 1941 it didn’t seem to be a mistake at all. “Everyone thought at the beginning that the war will result in the complete defeat of the Soviet Union,” said Aleksey Bris, who was an 18-year-old Ukrainian student in 1941.". . .

. . ."But then, after a moment’s reflection, I realized that this could never have happened. The whole nature of Nazism meant that after the initial euphoria of their “liberation” from Soviet rule wore off, Ukrainians were destined to experience the Nazis as some of the cruelest conquerors in history.". . .

Not even the Communist Holodomor surpassed Hitler's genocide!

A Brief History of Ukraine-Russia Relations    

Seven million Ukrainians died during the Holodomor. Some scholars say Stalin did this to crush the Ukrainian independence movement, and the Holodomor was verboten ‌until the waning years of the USSR.  Then, in World War 2 (WW2), Ukraine’s location between the great powers turned it into a meat grinder. Having to endure both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, many millions of Ukrainians died, millions more became homeless, and the conflict destroyed the country’s wealth.  The Holodomor translates roughly to “death by hunger” in Ukrainian. 

Holodomor Memorial, Kyiv. Holodomor means, “death by starvation

26 Horrifying Photos Of Holodomor, The Ukrainian Famine That Killed Millions (allthatsinteresting.com)

All the above to say that Ukrainians do not have a pleasant history with the Russians.

What the misreporting of the Ukraine famine in the 1930s tells us about the press today

New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi question to President Trump Monday brought to mind the NY Times' Walter Duranty, propaganda shill for Joseph Stalin's USSR.

Jonathan Coulter

STARVATION DURING THE HOLOMODOR, IMAGE POSTED AT THE HISTORY COLLECTION, FROM A YOUTUBE VIDEO

"Seeing the film “Mr. Jones” set me reading several books on the Ukraine famine of 1932/33, the so-called Holodomor, that killed almost four million people.  The books were written by Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder and Dr. Margaret Siriol Colley, the niece of the real-life protagonist, Gareth Jones, who visited the Ukraine and revealed the famine. 

"The deaths were the result of Stalin’s policies, notably the collectivization of agriculture, the destruction of the so-called kulak class of family farmers, the forced requisitioning of surplus grain to feed an expanding urban working-class population and for export, and the deliberate suppression of the autonomous Ukrainian identity, which Stalin irrationally saw as a door to foreign invasion.   He pursued these policies relentlessly, overriding all objections and in the knowledge of the consequences, so we may reasonably describe them as genocide.

"The West’s reaction to Jones’s revelations reflects poorly on the 1930s mainstream media.  Fellow journalists and newspapers worked to discredit him, and his findings were hardly talked about for many years, only coming fully to light after the independence of Ukraine in 1989." . . .

 Portrait of Evil: Walter Duranty, The New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Who Deliberately Hid Soviet-Imposed Famine that Killed Millions in Ukraine

Max "Boot compares Trump to Josef Stalin, to Benito Mussolini, and. . . to the Roman emperors Caligula and Nero." Oh, and Hitler.

Don Surber  "What about the Holodomor, Mister Boot?"

 . . . "Calling Trump Hitler is a disservice to the victims of Nazism, but victims of communism can pound salt, eh? The 6 million Ukranians starved to death died for the greater good, right comrade?

"Ceaser also wrote, "Boot’s story is as surprising as it is disheartening. Since Trump’s advent, he became and has steadfastly remained a convinced Never Trumper. Among the right-of-center intellectuals who have gone this way, no one has been so unsparing in opposition to the President unless it be his fellow Post columnist, the Bush II speechwriter Michael Gerson. As for Boot, he devotes column after column and tweet after tweet to warning of Trump’s failures and the dangers he poses to American democracy. He has exhausted the English language in condemning his adversary for demagoguery, narcissism, bigotry, xenophobia, racism, sexism, and authoritarianism. The President is a charlatan, an ignoramus, and a fascist.' " . . .

Trump Tosses Bernie’s Campaign Into the Trash Bin of History along with the Soviet economy

"The troll master trolls Democrats."

Legal Insurrection

"President Donald Trump tweeted this morning that 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) campaign is history.

"He pointed out that former Vice President Joe Biden still controls the polls, but those same pollsshow that Sanders is not quite finished yet.

. . . 

A recent Fox News poll has Biden up by 18 points. Biden only had 31% in March 2019, but he jumped to 35% in this poll taken from May 11-14. Sanders lost 6 points from 23% to 17%.

"The poll also showed candidates Pete Buttieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) gaining more points.

"However, when asked about hypothetical matchups, those polled chose Biden, Sanders, and Warren over Trump.

"An Emerson poll from last week has Biden ahead at 33% and Sanders at 25%. Biden gained 13 points from the previous Emerson poll. Warren and Harris tie for third at 10% and Buttieg at 8%. The other candidates poll at

 3% and less.

"The Morning Consult poll from May 13 discovered that Sanders has lost support from the key age group he usually excels in: 18-29 year-olds." . . .
Shame on our school systems for this result. TD

Perhaps there is hope? That Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems

But what about this?  "Feel the Bern: New Gallup Poll Finds 40 Percent of Americans Support Socialism"   You mean the socialism that gave Venezuela all this?

Josh Hammer at the Daily Wire posits: "Bernie Sanders’ Entire Worldview Is Grotesquely Immoral And Evil"  Sanders "openly, proudly, and defiantly stood with the genocidal, mass-murdering Soviet regime when that regime stood at existential loggerheads with the United States of America. The same Soviet regime that willfully committed the Holodomormass famine in the Ukraine. The same Soviet regime that quite possibly — indeed, quite likely — ended up killing more innocents over the course of its bloody reign than did the Third Reich. The same Soviet regime that sent up to 18 million to the gulags." . . . Can you prove him wrong without going into a "yeah, but..." argument?

The socialist plan for America:

As we pursue a socialist transformation of society, we join with others in making radical demands on the existing system: demands that challenge the basic assumptions of a capitalist market economy while pointing the way to a new society. Although reforms will not in themselves bring about socialism, the fight for them will advance the cause by demonstrating the inherent limitations and injustice of the capitalist system. As we build the socialist movement, we organize around a platform committed to our common and interdependent struggles and aspirations.

As socialists declared in 1917 Russia just before plunging that nation into seven decades of darkness, gulags, and tyranny leading to the deaths of millions, not just limited to Ukraine.

People starving in the streets of  Kharkov, Ukraine.

Holodomor: Memories of Ukraine's silent massacre. The left does not tolerate opposition.

Reparations: Another Cynical Racial Ploy from the Democrats

In a nauseating display, one after the other of their 2020 candidates stepped forward to be blessed in his or her fealty to reparations by that racist of racists—who can forget Tawana Brawley—the Reverend Al Sharpton at his National Action Network convention in NYC.

Roger L. Simon

"They say money is the mother's milk of politics, but for the Democrats the true mother's milk is racism—that is the perception thereof. Without the belief that America is a racist country, specifically against blacks but generally against any other group they can claim to be vulnerable, the party would cease to exist, dissolving into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West in the "Wizard of Oz."

"That is why they work so hard to preserve this sense of a country suffused with racism, fanning the flames at every turn to make it so, even when it isn't. In so doing, they often hypnotize themselves, convincing themselves of their own belief, which in turn perpetuates the myth and continues to manufacture hatred where it doesn't exist.

"Their latest gambit in this repellent cycle is the renewal of the demands for reparations for slavery. Never mind that this country fought its most dreadful war, resulting in the deaths of 400,000 Union soldiers, to end that horror. Never mind that the population of our country—approximately 30 million at the end of the Civil War—is now 325 million, a relatively small percentage coming from families that were here during slavery. Most came in waves of immigration, many escaping from such events as the Armenian and Jewish genocides, the Ukrainian Holodomor, during which Stalin starved millions to death, and similar famines and wars in China, Southern Europe, Ireland, Scotland, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia that caused those waves. And then, obviously, so much of Central and South America, Cuba, etc. in turmoil of their own. (I'm undoubtedly forgetting a few.) Do these people—legal and, yes, illegal—owe reparations for slavery?" . . .

The ongoing shame of CNN

Look, I hate to be That Guy but the anti-Trump nonsense is not liberal politics. It is corporate decision. Comcast (NBC), Disney (ABC), and Time-Warner (CNN) want globalism because they believe in the long-term, globalism will mean fatter executive checks and larger bonuses.  Don Surber

Thomas Lifson: Slam dunk video exposes CNN/MSNBC idiocy on Trump: 

"Cable news Trump-haters, besotted with outrage, don’t bother to sweat the details when it comes to venting their spleen on President Trump.   Finding something – anything – on which to express outrage is their daily challenge.

Last Friday, when President Trump tweeted that he was looking forward to the jobs report, about to be released, they went into high dudgeon.

"Amusing though that sort of indignation can be, it gets hilarious when they make up an imaginary contrast with their fantasies about the wonderfulness of ex-President Obama. Add in a dare to find an example of Obama doing the horrible, terrible, probably illegal and impeachable thing that President Trump did, and they set themselves up for serious embarrassment and humiliation,

"Watch the one minute video from the GOP below and be rewarded with a dose of exquisite schadenfreude."

Fake News of the day; John C. Nolte at Breitbart calls CNN garbage.

. . . "Jim Sciutto of CNN posted the picture and snottily wrote, "Trump is smiling next to a man who runs a gulag jailing some 200,000 North Koreans and who oversaw the sinking of a South Korean Navy ship killing 46 and the hacking of Sony North America."

"I posted a photo of FDR and Stalin smiling during World War II. Among Stalin's many, many atrocities was the starvation of 6 million Ukrainians during the Holodomor. They were reduced to cannibalism." . . .

He works for a network that cut a deal with Erdoğan to keep one of its international channels open. Turkey is not the only dictatorship that Time-Warner through its CNN beds with. The most infamous case was when it covered up the war crimes by Saddam Hussein to keep its bureau open in Baghdad, which became a propaganda arm for Hussein.
Read its confession here.

 Media Beclowns Itself Over Trump Jobs Report Tweet

Branco Cartoon – Blue Daze

The Democrats Descend Into Farce  . . . "Or how about this? The May jobs numbers were posted last week and the economy is flying high. Unemployment is as low as it's been in decades and black unemployment is lower than ever. Here's what Don Lemon — CNN's Dumb to Chris Cuomo's Dumber — says about the report: "There's no question today's job report is good news, including the news that we're as close as we've ever been to full employment in the black community. But what's full employment without full respect?" Don apparently thinks Americans don't respect all black people. Who's going to break the news that it's just him we don't respect?" . . .

Whining about good news  "CNN's Don Lemon on Friday's record job numbers report for blacks: "What's full employment without full respect?"

"When someone hires you, it is safe to assume he respects you enough to entrust an important corner of his business to your care, and that he intends to pay you with money." . . .

Money pays the rent and furnishes food for the family.  Respect won't buy you a teacup of Starbucks, but then Don Lemon's cup is always way more than half empty.

Nearly 1 In 5 Millennials Consider Joseph Stalin And Kim Jong Un ‘Heroes’

The Daily Caller  "The poll demonstrated an increase in acceptance of socialism and communism among American millennials and was released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund.

"One-half of millennials and one-third of Americans would prefer to reside in a socialist or communist nation instead of a capitalist democracy, according to the poll.

“ 'One in five (23%) of Americans age 21-29 consider Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin a ‘hero’; 26% for Vladimir Lenin; 23% for Kim Jong Un,” the study notes. Furthermore, over one-fifth of millennials surveyed had a positive opinion of Karl Marx.

“ 'Millennials are increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative,” said Marion Smith, Victims of Communism’s executive director, in the press release obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago.”

"The study also found that 71 percent of millennials could not pinpoint communism’s definition and four-fifths of the generation did not know how many lives were lost as a result of the ideology." . . .

One of Communist Premier Stalin's great accomplishments was this:

Do students know what "Holodomor" was? Soviet socialism brought mass starvation to Ukraine

Do students know what "Holodomor" was? Soviet socialism brought mass starvation to Ukraine

The American left celebrates Marxism and loves communism's homeland

Holodomor Memorial (Kiev, Ukraine)

Holodomor Facts and History:   
"In its broadest sense, it is also used to describe the Ukrainian genocide that began in 1929 with the massive waves of deadly deportations of Ukraine's most successful farmers (kurkuls, or kulaks, in Russian) as well as the deportations and executions of Ukraine's religious, intellectual and cultural leaders, culminating in the devastating forced famine that killed millions more innocent individuals. The genocide in fact continued for several more years with the further destruction of Ukraine's political leadership, the resettlement of Ukraine's depopulated areas with other ethnic groups, the prosecution of those who dared to speak of the famine publicly, and the consistent blatant denial of famine by the Soviet regime." . . .


". . . Denial of the famine by Soviet authorities was echoed at the time of the famine by some prominent Western journalists, like Walter Duranty. The Soviet Union adamantly refused any outside assistance because the regime officially denied that there was any famine. Anyone claiming the contrary was accused of spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. Outside the Soviet Union, Western governments adopted a passive attitude toward the famine, although most of them had become aware of the true suffering in Ukraine through confidential diplomatic channels."

"Ukraine", not "the Ukraine"

Harvest of Despair - The 1933 Ukrainian Holodomor Famine Genocide (Documentary

Holdomor: For those of you who think capitalistic America is just as evil as Communist Russia

"With Ukraine commemorating the Holodomor famine of the 1930s, it will be interesting to see if President . . .  President Barack Hussein Obama will even mention the commemoration of the horrific genocidal campaign against farmers in Ukraine during the 1930s. (Barack Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was quite fond of Stalin and the Soviet communists—being a hardcore communist himself.) "

Remembering Holodomor: Millions of People Were Killed by Stalin’s ‘Death by Famine’ Policy

. . . "The engineered famine known as the Holomodor occurred in Ukraine under the brutal and merciless reign of Josef Stalin. It is estimated that some 5-7 million people starved to death during Stalin’s forced collectivization of farms in the years 1932-1933. Stalin ordered that all grain be forcibly taken from Ukrainian farmers—namely, the kulaks (independent farmers). Stalin even ordered that the seed grain (required for planting a new crop) be taken from Ukrainian farmers, leading to the deaths of millions.

"Disturbingly, Vladimir Putin has been attempting to whitewash the sordid and murderous history of Josef Stalin as of late:" . . .

Alan Caruba: Liberal Media in Free Fall

Warning Signs

 

"An enduring memory of my late Father is of him sitting in his chair by the fireplace reading The New York Times. As far as he was concerned, he was receiving the most accurate news of the nation and the world. Despite the many Pulitzer Prizes it has received over the years, he wasn’t.

"One of them went to Walter Duranty in 1932, a reporter who was an apologist for the Soviet Union’s Stalinist regime. History revealed that he failed to accurately report on the 1932-1933 famine that killed countless thousands in the Ukraine where collective farming had been imposed. In November 2003 the Pulitzer Board, decided not to revoke the prize. In its review of the 13 articles, the Board “concluded that there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deceptions, the relevant standard in this case.” The Board extended its sympathy to Ukrainians."

 

Duranty's "reportage" was so skewed in favor of Stalin there is now an award named after him.

Amazon.com

... He did this whitewashing most prominently in the case of the Ukrainian Holodomor: the forced starvation of between 1.2 and 12 million ethnic Ukrainians, depending on whose estimates you believe. In other words, a lot of people. Duranty called that genocide “an exaggeration and malignant propaganda” in the newspaper of record. He also covered up the show trial of the British engineers who were tortured into falsely confessing that they were trying to sabotage Stalin’s Five-Year Plan …  and similar events … all the time excusing those Soviet misdeeds with what became his personal mantra: “You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.' ”

Some of the first annual recipients

 

Is Oliver Stone today’s Walter Duranty?

The Duranty Prize Is Back—with an Addition; The Rather!

"This year too we are pleased to announce a new award for lifetime, that is repeated, achievement in mendacious journalism – The Rather.  This is in honor of former CBS anchorman Dan Rather, who famously lied on 60 Minutes about forged papers supposedly tarnishing President George W. Bush’s National Guard service.  Rather’s prevarications were responsible in part of the formation and naming of the Media formerly known as Pajamas, now PJ Media."

Why we cannot trust the Newsmedia; Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural Walter Duranty Prize

PJ Media

First some background: The Duranty Prize is named after the "somewhat notorious Moscow bureau chief of the New York Times between 1922 and 1936, Walter Duranty.
".....  To review for those in this room — most of whom do know — for some fourteen years Walter Duranty, then the most famous and respected foreign correspondent in the world — also, as it happens, a Brit — whitewashed the repressive evil deeds of the Soviet Union....
"He did this whitewashing most prominently in the case of the Ukrainian Holodomor: the forced starvation of between 1.2 and 12 million ethnic Ukrainians, depending on whose estimates you believe. In other words, a lot of people. Duranty called that genocide “an exaggeration and malignant propaganda” in the newspaper of record.  ....
Newsweek's Lorraine Ali and the Ghost of Walter Duranty
Why do we call the New York Times the New Duranty Times?
Runner-up; Andrew Sullivan;
...".If you have any doubts about what Sullivan thinks of Israel, his answer came in a column he wrote only a few days ago: “We give the Israelis everything they ask for and they give the U.S. nothing in return.
...."The second reason Andrew Sullivan deserves the prize is for his neverending and relentless crusade to prove that Sarah Palin was not the mother of her Down Syndrome baby, Trig."
.... "Finally, we must also cite Sullivan’s over-the-top cover story for Newsweek on Obama. In his eyes, the president is a conciliator of the center willing to work with Republicans, but foiled by right-wing Republicans bent only on his destruction. He does not refer to Bob Woodward’s new book, in which Woodward reveals Obama as a chief executive who eschewed cooperation across the aisle and sought instead to implement an unpopular health care program without any Republican support." 
FIRST RUNNER-UP by Roger Kimball;  
"The selection committee of the 2012 Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity is delighted to award its commendation and second-place prize to Bob Simon for his supremely untruthful report “Christians of the Holy Land,” which aired last April on CBS’s storied news show 60 Minutes."

DURANTY PRIZE WINNER by Claudia Rosett;

The selection committee is pleased to bestow the Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity on reporter Joan Juliet Buck and editor Anna Wintour, for their... fearless dismissal of the truth in ... “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert.”
...."With Syrians engaging in rather more active citizenship than Asma, in her charity works, apparently had in mind, the Assad regime tried to suppress the uprising by killing its own fellow citizens — shooting, shelling, jailing, torturing, and murdering even children. Unlike in Duranty’s day, thanks to modern technology it did not take long for these horrors to hit the headlines. Vogue’s paean to the Assads was abruptly exposed as one of modern journalism’s most mortally embarrassing makeovers.

With instincts worthy of the old Soviet politburo, or for that matter, the Assad dictatorship, Vogue’s initial response was neither to apologize nor to correct the record, but simply to delete the article from its web site."