Walter Duranty

Good, short essay on Walter Duranty of the NYTimes here.

He near-invented Fake News and got a Pulitzer for it, lying about Stalin's deliberate starvation of Ukrainian kulaks (yeoman farmers.)

Also noted in the essay:

...The surprising 2019 film Mr. Jones does an excellent job showcasing both the Ukrainian horror and Jones's social life. Not surprisingly, Duranty was a Satanist and a world-class pervert. From the perspective of the contemporary media, he was simply a man ahead of his time....

Here's a question:  have hiring standards at the NYTimes changed since Duranty?