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Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty, The New York Times's Man In Moscow
by
S.J. Taylor
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. A witty, engaging, impish character with a flamboyant life-sty...more
Hardcover
Published
March 29th 1990
by Oxford University Press, USA
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When you read this book, you understand why the New York Times is headed downhill. The premise at that time was that even if Duranty lied about Stalin's crimes, the famine in The Soviet Union and everything else, the proximity to the Dictator was more important to the NYT. That's exactly how they have covered Cuba and that is exactly why they have lost readers and credibility. It's a great book and gives great insight into those who preach journalist objectivity, demand it from others and don't...more
Walter Duranty was the main reporter that the New York Times had in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.. He was neither pro-communist nor anti-communist. He prided himself on being nonjudgmental. Duranty lived comfortably in a small apartment in Moscow provided by the Soviets. He concentrated on his social life in Moscow with other expats. He was known for being an amusing raconteur. He rarely ventured out into the countryside, and so his reporting was based upon what he could obtain from sources...more
Amazing how a Pulitzer prize winning journalist watched while stalin starved millions and basically shrugged it off. And took lodging and favors from the soviet government and told socialists in America what they wanted to hear.
The book is probably good but I wasn't interested in the entire story of this person's life. I just wanted to read about the Stalin's apologist part of it.
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