Jewish Journalist Walter Duranty & NYTimes Covered Up Holodomor

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Duranty also claimed other journalists who reported the truth of the USSR, such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, were liars. Muggeridge went on to call Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism." Some of Duranty's most well known lies and falsehoods about Holodomor are:

"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.  --New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
   
"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."
--New York Times, August 23, 1933

"Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin's program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding." --New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6

"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." --New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
   
"There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition." --New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13

In 2003, The New York Times hired a Columbia University professor of Russian history to review Duranty's work. Professor Mark von Hagen concluded that Duranty:

"frequently writes in the enthusiastically propagandistic language of his sources," and that "there is a serious lack of balance in his writing." He recommended that "For the sake of The New York Times' honor, they should take the prize away".

His review was given to the Pulitzer board which, despite this, allowed Duranty to keep his prize. The struggle is currently still ongoing.

See http://www.conservapedia.com/Walter_Duranty

Malcolm Muggeridge's Moscow in Winter tells the story.  Well worth having if you can find a copy at a reasonable price.  Should be taught with Orwell.