CNN, Walter Duranty is not a good role model
Exclusive: Jack Cashill compares network's N. Korea coverage to that of Times' Stalin fan
2-14-18 by Jack Cashill
More than a few people in the media this week compared CNN’s fawning
Olympic coverage of Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean despot Kim
Jong-un, to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Timesman Walter
Duranty.
These comparisons were not meant as a compliment. To understand why we might want to flash back to the month of November 1933, the most thrilling in Duranty’s professional life.
The one-legged, British-born U.S. citizen had just arrived in Washington, D.C., from Moscow. He had come these many miles to witness President Roosevelt officially recognize the Soviet Union.
Everyone knew that were it not for Duranty’s reporting the president would never have pushed for recognition. A little more than a year later, Simon & Schuster published Duranty’s take on the Soviet experiment. The title of the book was the scarily appropriate, “I Write As I Please.”
In this classic of willful blindness, the presumably objective journalist sheds his usual cynicism only to show his affection for Comrade Stalin.
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These comparisons were not meant as a compliment. To understand why we might want to flash back to the month of November 1933, the most thrilling in Duranty’s professional life.
The one-legged, British-born U.S. citizen had just arrived in Washington, D.C., from Moscow. He had come these many miles to witness President Roosevelt officially recognize the Soviet Union.
Everyone knew that were it not for Duranty’s reporting the president would never have pushed for recognition. A little more than a year later, Simon & Schuster published Duranty’s take on the Soviet experiment. The title of the book was the scarily appropriate, “I Write As I Please.”
In this classic of willful blindness, the presumably objective journalist sheds his usual cynicism only to show his affection for Comrade Stalin.
-go to link-
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