"The [Soviet] press concentrates public opinion upon defects and ways to improve them, upon enemies and ways to defeat them, but it rigidly excludes the implication that there is anything wrong with the system itself." --@nytimes 11/25/32
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"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." --Duranty, NY Times, August 23, 1933 Not only did they lie to cover up a genocide, they accused those who exposed it of lying and doing so for nefarious purposes.
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This is why they call Walter Duranty the potassium chloride of the journalism world.
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Wonder if McCarthy ever had a sit-down with Duranty...
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I never knew about Duranty. I appreciate you bringing this to my attention. Just when I thought the NYT used to be a paper with integrity, I now see that the lies they print today are actually old hat. Apparently they’ve always sucked.pic.twitter.com/inrAiv7xKj
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