Founding Father of Fake News
- Episode aired Aug 24, 2017
In 1932, Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about Stalin and the Soviet Union, most published in 1931. He was criticized then by British journalists Malcolm Mug... Read allIn 1932, Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about Stalin and the Soviet Union, most published in 1931. He was criticized then by British journalists Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, and later, in books by Robert Conquest and S.J. Taylor, for his ... Read allIn 1932, Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about Stalin and the Soviet Union, most published in 1931. He was criticized then by British journalists Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, and later, in books by Robert Conquest and S.J. Taylor, for his denial of widespread famine in the USSR - most particularly the Holodomor, a mass starvati... Read all