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Temat: Ukraina, Ukraina, czasy tragedi
...the Soviet
regime, but the year after Duranty received his Pulitzer the new
administration of Franklin Roosevelt gave the USSR the diplomatic
recognition it coveted. Fittingly enough, Duranty attended the White
House ceremony welcoming the Soviet ambassador. He also got
privileged treatment from Stalin.
The Times was slow to admit its terrible error in trusting Duranty.
It eventually did so, but continued to include Duranty in its long
list of Pulitzer winners. Today the Paper of Record is dealing
frankly with that old scandal. Pretty frankly, anyway. Bill Keller,
its executive editor, calls Duranty’s reporting “credulous,
uncritical parroting of propaganda.”
Actually, it was a pack of lies, conscious lies. Duranty wasn’t
fooled; he knew better. So did Franklin Roosevelt, who, as
president, had better sources of information than newspapers; but he...
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