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2020-05-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Russian journalists accuse NY Times of stealing stories that earned it Pulitzer Prize – for second time
[There's no Pravda in New York Times....]
[TheGrayZone] The New York Times has apparently stolen its Pulitzer Prize-winning stories from Russian journalists — the same liberal anti-Putin reporters its correspondents have lionized.

The New York Times has been accused for a second time of stealing major scoops from Russian journalists. One of those stories won the Times a Pulitzer Prize this May.

The journalists who have accused the Times of taking their work without credit also happen to be the same liberal media crusaders against Vladimir Putin that Western correspondents at the Times and other mainstream outlets have cast as persecuted heroes.

The Pulitzer Prize Board is comprised of a who’s who of media aristocrats and Ivy League bigwigs. Given the elite backgrounds of the judges, it is hardly a surprise that they rewarded reporting reinforcing the narrative of the new US Cold War against official enemies like Russia and China.

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times correspondent who has since become a critic of US foreign policy, noted that the three finalists in the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting "were one story about how evil Russia is and two about how evil China is. These choices encourage reporters to write stories that reinforce rather than question Washington’s foreign-policy narrative."...
Posted by Clem 2020-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Not surprised. Amused maybe.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-09 01:59||   2020-05-09 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 What's the saying - no honor among thieves.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-09 07:02||   2020-05-09 07:02|| Front Page Top

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