Announcing the Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendaci
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 6:33 am
The following is an email I received from Pajamas Media in my inbox this morning, announcing the Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity. I thought you all might like a chance to offer up your suggestions for this fine award. 
Fire for effect.Dear Friend,
As I recently teased on my blog, PJ Media, in conjunction with our good friends at The New Criterion, will be awarding the first annual Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity this fall.
The intention of this award is to highlight the continuing extreme bias and misreporting of many mainstream media outlets. The prize will be given for what our readers consider the most egregious example of dishonest reporting for the fiscal year 2011-2012 (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012).
You can submit your nominations for the first annual Duranty Prize at http://pjmedia.com/duranty/ .
The prize is named after Walter Duranty, The New York Times' Moscow correspondent in the 1920s and 1930s who whitewashed Joseph Stalin's forced mass starvation of the Ukrainians (the Holodomor) and many other aspects of Soviet oppression.
Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his efforts. Despite numerous attempts by Ukrainian organizations and others, the prize has never been revoked. Duranty's photograph remains in its honored place on The New York Times' wall along with the newspaper's other Pulitzer winners.
We are now accepting nominations for the first annual Duranty Prize at http://pjmedia.com/duranty/. A Duranty Prize Committee of seven journalists and writers -- including Peter Collier, Roger Kimball, Cliff May, Ron Radosh, Glenn Reynolds, Claudia Rosett and me -- will review the nominations and decide the winner (or winners) to be announced at a ceremony in New York in the fall.
Click here submit your nominations for the first annual Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity. And please invite your friends to submit their nominations, too.
Sincerely,
Roger L. Simon
