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The recent twin scandals at the New York Times concerning reporters Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg are small potatoes compared to the big brouhaha brewing over Walter Duranty, the Times' long-dead-and-buried celebrity embarrassment. THE NEW AMERICAN has repeatedly exposed Duranty's treasonous actions as the U.S. media's top Kremlin apologist during the 1930s and his key role in smothering news of Stalin's slaughter-by-famine of the Ukrainian people. The Duranty-Times coverup of the Ukrainian genocide is one of the most heinous journalistic crimes of the 20th century.
Now, the Blair and Bragg scandals over plagiarism, fabrication, and non-attribution have stirred new interest in Duranty and his Pulitzer Prize.
In his MSNBC "Instapundit" column for May 23rd, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds wrote: "At The New York Times, reporter Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize back in the 1930s for his reporting from the Soviet Union. Later it turned out that he ...