Walter Duranty Prize

For John, BLUF:  NYT Foreign Correspondent Walter Duranty received the Pulizer Prize in 1932 while submitting FALSE reporting out of the Soviet Union.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

Here is the report on The First Annual Walter Durant Prize.

The selection committee is pleased to bestow the Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity on reporter Joan Juliet Buck and editor Anna Wintour, for their combined feats of on-site reporting, headline packaging, impeccable timing, and fearless dismissal of the truth in Vogue magazine’s astounding March 2011 cover story:  “Asma al-Assad:  A Rose in the Desert.”

Regards  —  Cliff