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:''Main article:'' [[Holodomor]]
:''Main article:'' [[Holodomor]]
*In 1931, ''Times'' correspondent [[Walter Duranty]] intentionally covered up the [[Soviet]] [[Holodomor|genocide]] of the [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]].<ref>[http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</ref> Duranty not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but also called other journalists who reported on it liars<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref><ref name=Conquest />. The lack of knowledge of this genocide was observed by English writer [[George Orwell]], who commented "''huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English Russophiles"''.<ref>"''Notes on Nationalism''" in "The ''Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell''" ([[London]], 1968), Vol. 3, p. 370.</ref> The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people<ref>http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/184/0/33564/</ref>.
*In 1931, ''Times'' correspondent [[Walter Duranty]] intentionally covered up the [[Soviet]] [[Holodomor|genocide]] of the [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]].<ref>[http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</ref> Duranty not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but also called other journalists who reported on it liars<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref><ref name=Conquest />. The lack of knowledge of this genocide was observed by English writer [[George Orwell]], who commented "''huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English Russophiles"''.<ref>"''Notes on Nationalism''" in "The ''Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell''" ([[London]], 1968), Vol. 3, p. 370.</ref> The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people<ref>http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/184/0/33564/</ref>.
===Promoting Castro===
The front page of the ''New York Times'' on April 18, 1959 read,
{{QuoteBox|Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba denied today charges of Communist influence in his regime. In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors he asserted: " have said very clearly that we are not Communists...our revolution is a humanistic one".}}In an editorial later, the ''Times'' commented,
{{QuoteBox|"He made it quite clear that neither he nor anyone of importance in his Government so far as he knew was Communist or in agreement with communism."}}
On May 23, 1959, on the front page, the ''Times'' recorded the following details:
{{QuoteBox|Extremists have no place in the Cuban revolution, Premier Fidel Castro said in a television interview early this morning....In the same broadcast the Premier dashed hopes of United States sugar interests to save their properties from seizure under the new land reform law.}}
In an editorial in the same issue, the ''Times'' reported itself encouraged:
{{QuoteBox|"It is encouraging to see Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba facing up to the Communists as he did in his television interview on Thursday night. . . The aims of the Cuban Reds, with their links to Moscow and their totalitarian philosophy, were bound to be contrary, in the long run, to the aims of the 26th of July movement, which fought for democracy, freedom, social justice and - rather unhappily - for an extreme nationalism."}}
===Evil Empire===
===Evil Empire===