I think we have just become aware of the unfree press.

For instance: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...02/791vwuaz.asp

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I think we have just become aware of the unfree press.

For instance: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...02/791vwuaz.asp

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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I think we have just become aware of the unfree press.

For instance: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...02/791vwuaz.asp

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We can hope the Nobel committee in Oslo will also review some of their more dubious awards?

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Quote: Cyber Liberty wrote in post #3

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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I think we have just become aware of the unfree press.

For instance: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...02/791vwuaz.asp

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We can hope the Nobel committee in Oslo will also review some of their more dubious awards?

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They've already done so and decided to leave Duranty's in place.

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #4

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Quote: Cyber Liberty wrote in post #3

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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I think we have just become aware of the unfree press.

For instance: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...02/791vwuaz.asp

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We can hope the Nobel committee in Oslo will also review some of their more dubious awards?

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They've already done so and decided to leave Duranty's in place.

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Duranty had a Nobel?

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This piece cited by Sanguine is excellent and spot on: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...wuaz.asp?page=1

The 30s and early 40s are a remarkable time when it comes to the way Western "Liberals" like how Duranty and others dealt with the brute who was Stalin. Among the books which deal with this time of madness is a very good one entitled Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society: "Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals—from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag— admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba appear at one time as both successful modernizing societies and the fulfillments of the boldest dreams of social justice? Why, at the same time, had these intellectuals so mercilessly judged and rejected their own Western, liberal cultures? What Impulses and beliefs prompted them to seek the realization of their ideals in distant, poorly known lands? How do their journeys fit into long-standing Western traditions of looking for new meaning In the non-Western world?"

Do you know who was as bad as Duranty, if not worse? Our own ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938, Joseph Davies. Davies was such a low life that he used to be invited to KGB facilities where starving Russians would surrender for a mere pittance priceless art they had hidden in order to get food. The KGB would then let Davies pick over the objects and select the best for his private collection which in turn became the basis for his donation of Russian icons and chalices for the museum in the National Cathedral and other art museums within the United States. (We are reminded quite often of the theft of Jewish art objects stolen by the Nazis but never that extracted from the Russian people by such as Davies).

Davies acted as a propaganda megaphone for Stalin and the Soviet system. He even stated, "that communism was "protecting the Christian world of free men", and he urged all Christians "by the faith you have found at your mother's knee, in the name of the faith you have found in temples of worship" to embrace the Soviet Union". He also wrote an infamous book, later made into an equally infamous movie, which supposedly described his experiences in the Soviet Union, Mission to Moscow. "The movie gave a one-sided view of the Moscow trials, rationalized Moscow's participation in the Nazi-Soviet Pact and its unprovoked invasion of Finland, and portrayed the Soviet Union as a state that was moving towards a democratic model, a Soviet Union committed to internationalism. As did the book, the final screenplay portrayed the defendants in the Moscow [show] trials as guilty in Davies's view. It also portrayed some of the purges as an attempt by Stalin to rid his country of pro-German fifth columnists."

Davies was a total pos, but so were so many others in this period including Duranty.