Air-brushing history: Pulitzer board right to not revoke 1932 award.

The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, Nov. 28:

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Walter Duranty may not have deserved the Pulitzer _ by today's standards and insights. But Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer in 1932, based on the standards and insights of the day.

To revoke the prestigious journalism prize 71 years later _ without evidence of wrongdoing by the reporter _ would have been a bad move. The Pulitzer board made the right decision last week in rejecting the recommendation by a Columbia University history professor hired by The New York Times to research the merits of the issue.

Professor Mark von Hagen determined that ...