on February 12, 2015 in World News
Achtung! N.Y. Times had love affair with Hitler, Stalin
Achtung! N.Y. Times had love affair with Hitler, Stalin Not only did the New York Times miss the mark in its early characterization of Adolf Hitler, questioning the “sincerity” of his anti-Semitism in 1922 and claiming he had been “tamed” by a prison term two years later, the Old Gray Lady also badly missed the target of truth on another of the world’s worst dictators. One of the Times’s most famous reporters was Walter Duranty, whose coverage in 1931-33 from the Soviet Union won all kinds of accolades, including the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting. As documented by historian… View Article
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