The Corner

An Accomplice to Genocide

…is honored by the New York Times today. The name of Walter Duranty is included in the newspaper’s list of Pulitzer winners, which it proudly publishes today (in its Opinion section). Well, it’s true that Duranty did indeed win the prize, but it might be nice to see the Times acknowledge (with a footnote, say) that what Duranty published was a pack of lies from start to finish. And, yes, while it might be a little embarrassing for the Times to have to put up such an admission, it’s surely far less shameful than the alternative: including an apologist for mass murder on its annual roll of honor without a word of explanation.

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