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Sure, it only took the NYT 58 years to issue a retraction of their whitewashing of Stalin. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/opinion/the-editorial-notebook-tre

• nl 9y ago
  I dunno - are you really serious about criticizing them for something they published between then 1920 and 1940s? When already "the editorial page vigorously dissented from his accounts." And I'd also note that the NTTimes post WW2 wasn't pro-Stalin at all, and it's only in the modern era that people seem to expect a whole mea-culpa about that kind of thing. But I guess it is a credit to them for going back and writing about something everyone else had forgotten, 27 years ago, 50 years after it occurred. I guess we are still waiting for the corrections from Hearst and Pulitzer over the US/Spanish war, though. Any day now....
  • Turing_Machine 9y ago
    > When already "the editorial page vigorously dissented from his accounts." Yeah, that's just ass-covering and weaseling. > But I guess it is a credit to them for going back and writing about something everyone else had forgotten Stalin was murdering and enslaving people within living memory, and his successors continued the process until 1991. I assure you that the surviving victims and their friends and families have not "forgotten".
    • nl 9y ago
      And the NY Times reported that murdering and enslaving that whole time, including while that dodgy reporter was reporting otherwise. Here's one from the year before that apology (ie, from 1989): http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-says-20-million-died-as-victims-of-stalin.html http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-s...