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But, as S.J. Taylor reveals in this provocative biography, Walter Duranty played a key role in perpetrating some of the greatest lies history has ever known. Stalin's Apologist deftly unfolds the story of this accomplished but sordid and tragic life. Drawing on sources ranging from newspapers to private letters and journals to interviews with ...
Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty : The New York Times Man in Moscow: Walter Duranty - "The New York Times's" Man in Moscow | Taylor, Sally J. | ISBN: 9780195057003 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
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Journalist. Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936). His tenure there followed the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), the tenure of Lenin, and the rise of Stalin and Stalinism.
Walter Duranty, whom I must thank for his continued kindness and helpfulness to hundreds of American and British visitors to Moscow, immediately cabled a denial of the famine. He suggested that my judgment was only based on a forty-mile tramp through villages. He stated that he had inquired in Soviet commissariats and in the foreign embassies ...
29. März 1990 · Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
The Times’s slack or nonexistent oversight of Duranty’s reporting put his false, unsourced stories on the pages of the Gray Lady. But it was his Pulitzer Prize that inducted Walter Duranty into a class of New York Times elites which gave the correspondent a virtual free pass that got even his most egregious news articles past Times editors without so much as a quick glance at the vague and ...
13. Okt. 2017 · Extra rewards were available to those, like Walter Duranty, who played the game particularly well. Duranty was The New York Times correspondent in Moscow from 1922 until 1936, a role that, for a ...
