Monday, December 27, 2004

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Timely media criticism

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.
Ms. Malkin adds to the mounting evidence against the "the American propaganda organ otherwise known as the New York Times." She quotes from Accuracy in Media
The New York Times has not fully apologized, even though it sponsored some of the worst lies about Ukraine ever published.
What's this? A new Jayson Blair-type scandal? Judith Miller up to her old tricks again?

In a word, no.
The reporting was done by the Stalinist apologist Walter Duranty, The New York Times' Moscow correspondent during the 1920s and 1930s. Duranty denied millions of Ukrainians were being killed by the Moscow-instigated Great Famine during the years 1932-33...
Wow. I'm sure the Times editors are resigning en masse rolling over in their graves.