Monday, June 14, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NYTs "Walter Duranty" Bureau Chief In Istanbul - '...Sabrina Tavernise is mostly carrying water for the Erdogan government, akin to the NYT's Walter Duranty for Stalin's. Her Russian Studies might have prepared her better, but one wonders whether the Walter Duranty articles in the NYTs were even covered in her undergraduate schooling, Duranty being the NYT's bureau chief in Moscow from 1922-1934. As Roger Kimball reminded us, "With peasants dropping like flies everywhere around him, Duranty cheerfully cabled back to New York that although there were some occasional food shortages, there was 'no actual starvation.' "...'
