Evil Journalism?

“He is the personification of evil in journalism. We think he was like the originator of fake news.”

—Oksana Piaseckyj, Ukrainian-American activist, “The New York Times can’t shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize,” NPR, May 8, 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: NYT Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer in 1932 for “largely discredited” work acknowledged to have been filled with Stalin's propaganda, and that ignored conditions and policies that led to famine that killed millions in Ukraine. “New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty.”

 

• Editorial Comment: An early Tucker Carlson.

 

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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