In 1932-33, The New York Times ran a series of articles on the Soviet Union by Walter Duranty. That series of articles covered up and excused a mass murder in the Ukraine that was on a par with Adolph Hitlerƒ??s later genocide. During this time Duranty was quoted as estimating ten million people had been murdered. He knew the truth and reported lies. The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for his lies and they still have it.
From History News Network.
http://hnn.us/articles/1851.html
To appreciate the meaning of Durantyism I have collected a few extracts from his New York Times dispatches:
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition, (March 31, 1933), page 13.

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 Kremlinƒ??s program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding, (December 9, 1932), page 6.

You canƒ??t make an omelette without breaking eggs, (May 14, 1933), page 18.


To my point: The subject story and the Jason Blair story are not new. Partisan lies have been a staple of the New York Times since at least the ƒ??30s. Personally, I have doubts about anyone that reads The New York Times and takes it seriously. A kind of litmus test. Is the person merely ignorant or more likely a self-important fool? Or is he/she the kind of person that finds genocide on a scale larger than that of the Nazis acceptable?

The General wrote that he reads the Times ƒ??faithfully since I was a 17 year old cadet at West Pointƒ?. He also wrote about The Times being a ƒ??superb American Newspaperƒ?. I have a positive opinion of the General, so I hope that his statements are only rhetorical devices.

Regards,

Steamboat Jack

A few links if you want to read some more

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-10-22-ny-times-pulitzer_x.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford050703.asp

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33511

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - Web Reconnaissance for 05/30/2008 A short recon of whatƒ??s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.

I think the congressman's pandering tone is a bit stomach churning. What disgusts me is that he has the gall to write such a letter to a retired general based up on a New York Times article that quite possibly contains nothing more than hearsay. I don't exactly hold or politicians in the highest regard to begin with. I don't know that I agree with Gerneral MaCaffery's statements about th journalistic integrity and the accuracy of NBC. I certainly don't agree with everything he has ever said or every opinion he has offered but I do respect the man and he is to be commended for self restraint in response to a nonesensical letter. I don't think it would be wise or matrue of me to call refer to the congressman as an ignorant jackass, but it sure seems fitting.

I went to a Vietnamese wedding last weekend. There were many people there that could testify that the Vietnam War didnt end when U.S. troops left.

The American leftwing support for the North Vietnamese invasion of the South left them homeless...

And they were the lucky ones.