In 1932, New York Times Moscow bureau chief Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for numerous reports about the Soviet Union under Stalin. Many years later, after the horrors of the famine in Ukraine and the millions of deaths of Russians and Ukrainians were learned, even Duranty's own paper admitted that his blatant denials of the Russian famine amounted to "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper". Duranty was clearly a "useful idiot", despite his credentials as among the most reputable journalists of his time. You'd think that the Times would have learned something in 86 years. You'd be wrong, however. The opportunity to praise a brutal regime while simultaneously dumping on a Republican administration is simply too tempting to pass up. Careful readers will recognize that the first paragraph of this missive is an exact copy/paste from one I put up a couple weeks ago. Because it's not the first time our media has thrown bouquets at the feet of a brutish regime. Let that sink in for a bit.
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