Michelle Malkin Investigates

Episode 1

Founding Father of Fake News

Thu, Aug 24, 2017

In 1932, Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about Stalin and the Soviet Union, most published in 1931. He was criticized then by British journalists Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, and later, in books by Robert Conquest and S.J. Taylor, for his denial of widespread famine in the USSR - most particularly the Holodomor, a mass starvation and genocide in Ukraine. We delve into Duranty's coverage of the famine and his false reporting to the New York Times. We also examine the integrity of today's media journalists in a one-on-one interview with James Agresti, president of JustFacts.com, a resource for independent thinkers.