A Duranty Preview
We will have a downright fantastic essay for you all on Tuesday, in which writer Don Pesci takes a very hard look at Walter Duranty, the infamous and late Moscow correspondent for The New York Times.
We think Mr. Pesci has made quite a compelling case as to why Duranty's Pulitzer Prize should be stripped. There are plenty of reasons why that should come about, but we can list three quite quickly: famine, lies and justice.
Can across the Duranty story around June 10th and blogged about it. It was about the same time the NYT was calling the Blair controversy their "low point." I thought perhaps Duranty stooped lower.
Um... replace "can" with "came" in above comment :-)
Let's not forget Herbert Matthews and Oliver Stone
http://www.cubacenter.org/media/news_articles/myopic.php3
Let's not forget Herbert Matthews and Oliver Stone
http://www.cubacenter.org/media/news_articles/myopic.php3
My favorite urban legends are the ghost stories. The one about the guy who spotted a teenaged girl hitchhiking. She was wearing an old-fashioned prom dress who was hitchhiking. She gave him her address, but when he reached the address, the girl simply vanished, leaving nothing but a damp cold spot where she had been sitting.
The man walked up to the door, and knocked, and asked about this girl. They had no daughter, she had died in a car accident going to her school prom 20 years ago.
I wish I could remember the girl's name. That particular legend is big in Chicago, and usually gets brought up on Holloween.
Dean:
You are describing Resurrection Mary. She supposedly haunts the streets around Resurrection Cemetary in the southern suburbs of Chicago. I remember hearing about her all the time while growing up.
That's her! Thanks Ed! I couldn't remember!