The Pulitzer Pulled?
June 13, 2003
The New York Times may have to hand over one of its Pulitzers as penance for a journalistic sin committed 7 decades ago. The Pulitzer Board is reviewing its 1932 prize for Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty, who deliberately suppressed information about the famine that killed millions of Ukranians on his watch. Bob talks with historian Bert Patenaude about Duranty's prize-winning disinformation.
