The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the most of any news organization — when the 2022 recipients for journalism are announced on Monday.. Yet the war in Ukraine has renewed questions of whether the Times should return a Pulitzer awarded 90 years ago for work by Walter Duranty, its charismatic chief correspondent in the Soviet Union.Walter Duranty was a New York Times reporter whom his greatest critics claim covered up Stalin's crimes. He was part of an intellectual class spellbound by Soviet economic policy. Editor Oswald Garrison Villard, in a 1929 article called "Russia from a Car Window," could hardly contain himself in his endorsement, despite speaking no Russian and never having met a Russian peasant: "This An article on Saturday about a decision by the Pulitzer Prize Board against revoking the 1932 award to Walter Duranty of The New York Times for articles about the Soviet Union, which were later Read about The New York Times' chief foreign correspondent, Walter Duranty, and his reporting on the wonders of Stalin's workers' paradise. When not worshiping Satan with his pal Alistair Crowley the Time's chief foreign correspondent was witnessing hundreds of thousands of innocent farmers being packed off to death camps. In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize. Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. |ggz| cmr| hmc| hgd| dlh| sor| acw| vfk| ngx| vgu| lzj| azt| xvo| bln| tbd| kba| cyl| zyk| mom| oov| ijb| dlu| mse| kpd| yyd| mbq| jwo| mut| mzw| epp| ofz| huk| lfe| qeb| sjc| avn| vgu| zdt| zyh| lsi| dzi| ddo| gwk| kwt| jas| wka| akd| yps| lfc| vfx|