Duranty

[duh-ran-tee]

noun

1. Walter, 1884–1957, English journalist and author in the U.S.

Example Sentences

The New York Times’ Walter Duranty infamously ignored the Stalin dictatorship’s horrific starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s.

From Salon

Carlson, to the extent he’s remembered at all, will take his place alongside Walter Duranty, the New York Times reporter of the 1930s who covered up Stalin’s crimes, romanticizing the murderous dictator as a great leader—though Duranty’s deeds were deliberate, stemming from ideology, whereas Carlson is simply a bumbler.

From Slate

“Condition are bad, but there is no famine,” Duranty wrote in one 1933 dispatch.

From New York Times

In the 1930s, Walter Duranty, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent, denied reporting by another Western journalist that Stalin’s collectivization of Ukrainian farmland led to a famine thought to have killed between 3 and 4 million people.

From New York Times

British journalist Walter Duranty had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his stories on the supposed success of collectivization and other Soviet policies.

From Washington Post