Seven at the new criterion and pj media win the Duranty-Blair award for journalistic infamy!

[“Ruthless People: Rathergate Producer Mary Mapes, CBS News, and the Chicago All-Stars.”]

By Nicholas Stix

I created the Duranty-Blair Awards for journalistic infamy back in 2004, in response to the Mary Mapes-Dan Rather Hoax, when Mapes and Rather tried to rig the presidential election, on behalf of democrat John Kerry.

Eight years later, Roger Kimball at the new criterion and Roger L. Simon, (the late) Peter Collier, Cliff May, Ron Radosh, Glenn Reynolds and Claudia Rosett at pj media plagiarized it for “their” so-called Walter Duranty awards.

Thus, in recognition of their plagiary, I am bestowing Duranty-Blair Awards on Roger Kimball, Roger L. Simon, Peter Collier (posthumously), Cliff May, Ron Radosh, Glenn Reynolds and Claudia Rosett.

The Duranty-Blair Award recognizes those journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Walter Duranty and Jayson Blair, two of the most notorious scoundrels in the history of the Fourth Estate. It is no accident that both men worked for the New York Times.

Although I have often meant to issue many more D-Bs since 2018, amid the constant blizzard of fraudulent scribbling, thanks to “j-schools,” which only exist, in order to cull students showing any decent and honest tendencies from the so-called news business, and racial socialist newsroom enforcers, in which only the exceptional piece of media stuff does not deserve a D-B, I have frequently neglected to do so. However, as abitrary at the business may have become, I still must issue these rasberries.

Walter Duranty wrote a series of early 1930s dispatches from the Soviet Union, where he was Times Moscow bureau chief, in which he lied about the Ukrainian Holocaust, in which Stalin deliberately starved millions of Kulaks (farmers/peasants) to death, through a man-made famine. Instead of reporting the truth, Duranty reported that the peasants were happy and well-fed, and was rewarded for his lies with a Pulitzer Prize.

Jayson Blair (here, here, and here) was an early 2000s black affirmative action hire, who alternately plagiarized reporters at other newspapers, and fabricated articles out of whole cloth, all for stories set hundreds and even thousands of miles away, while he sat in New York City cafés.


Previous Duranty-Blair winners are:

• CBS News producer Mary Mapes in 2004;

• Seven reporters and editors at the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 2006;

• ABC News reporter Brian Ross in 2012;

• Peter Berger (not the brilliant sociologist), of The American Interest, in 2013;

• Associated Press operative Tom Hays, in 2014;

• New York Times operative Farhad Manjoo in September, 2016;

• CNN’s Symone Sanders (2), Don Lemon, and Kate Bolduan (2) (P.S. and Jeff Zucker [5]), in November 2016;

• New York Times Propaganda Officer Francis X. Clines in March 2017;

• CNN Activist Jim Sciutto, in May 2017;

• Associated Press “Reporter” Duncan Mansfield (posthumous), in September 2017;

• CBS Sports operative Jack Maloney, Chairman Sean McManus, and President David Berson, in October 2017;

• Associated Press operative Julie Pace, in October 2017;

• Associated Press Executive Editor Sally Buzbee and Managing Editor Brian Carovillano, in November 2017;

• “New York Times Operatives Richard Fausset (Alleged Reporter), Executive Editor Dean Baquet, and Managing Editor Joseph Kahn,” in December 2017;

• Foreign Policy’s Max Boot, Jonathan Tepperman, and Ben Pauker, in January 2018;

• Sports “Reporter” Les Carpenter, January 6, 2018;

• People Magazine “Reporter” Steve Helling and Editor Jess Cagle, August 3, 2018;

• Vanity Fair’s William D. Cohan and Graydon Carter, August 13, 2018;

• Vox Media Gang Member Zack Beauchamp, August 13, 2018;

• Politico Gang Member Daniel Lippman, September 18, 2018;

• CNN’s Manu Raju (and Jeff Zucker), on October 13, 2018;

• CNN’s Ana Cabrera, Marc Lamont Hill, and Zucker on October 18, 2018; and

• CNN’s Kirsten Powers and Jeff Zucker, and USA Today’s Nicole Carroll, on October 27, 2018.