BML: Walterz Pulitzer Prize

Dave joins Bill Mick to talk about some history and the media and why we will always be distrustful of those who control information. Last week, a “Producer” (whatever that means) for MSNBC created a small firestorm when he derisively referred to the Diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics as being over the “alleged human rights violations” by Communist China, or as I refer to it, West Taiwan. For a brief moment, the hashtag “#alleged” was trending on social media. As you can probably guess, it didn’t last long. Today you can more or less only the find any reference to the story on conservative media. We could spend a lot of time talking about the bias of media, the censorship by the tech media, the ignorance of the American people, or… We could talk about some history. Like that time a guy won a Nobel Prize (1932) for Correspondence by telling the entire world that in the Communist utopia there was (a) nothing going on and (b) even if something was going on, it was completely rational and totally necessary… NOTES & Links: Biography: Walter Duranty US Congressional: Investigation of the Ukraine Famine Statement of Pulitzer Prize Committee on Walter Duranty’s 1932 Prize US State Department: China’s Disregard for Human Rights