NY Times still doesn't get it
Andrew Sullivan:
"Arthur Sulzberger Jr describes the work of Walter Duranty as "slovenly." That simply misses the point. Duranty wasn't slovenly; he was an active and knowing apologist of mass murder, tyranny, and brutality. If the Times had won a Pulitzer for someone denying the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, there would not even be a question of the Pulitzer standing. But what Duranty did was no different. It was a wilful attempt to disguise mass murder in order to promote Communist ideology. It wasn't slovenly; it was extremely diligent and entirely malign. The NYT doesn't see this. They still fail to see that tolerating mass murder on the left is no different than the same on the right."
Duranty won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the economic miracle of Stalin's regime while omitting the deliberate starvation of millions in the Ukraine. Sullivan is correct, this is not slovenly it goes to the heart of Durnaty's premise. There are still too many people who are willing to excuse mass murder by the left because they agree with their objectives. They do not comprehend that those objectives are entirely unattainable through any means other than mass murder.
Andrew Sullivan:
"Arthur Sulzberger Jr describes the work of Walter Duranty as "slovenly." That simply misses the point. Duranty wasn't slovenly; he was an active and knowing apologist of mass murder, tyranny, and brutality. If the Times had won a Pulitzer for someone denying the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, there would not even be a question of the Pulitzer standing. But what Duranty did was no different. It was a wilful attempt to disguise mass murder in order to promote Communist ideology. It wasn't slovenly; it was extremely diligent and entirely malign. The NYT doesn't see this. They still fail to see that tolerating mass murder on the left is no different than the same on the right."
Duranty won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the economic miracle of Stalin's regime while omitting the deliberate starvation of millions in the Ukraine. Sullivan is correct, this is not slovenly it goes to the heart of Durnaty's premise. There are still too many people who are willing to excuse mass murder by the left because they agree with their objectives. They do not comprehend that those objectives are entirely unattainable through any means other than mass murder.
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