Duranty is best known for his stringent denial of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, known as [[Holodomor]]. Duranty refused to report on the man-made famine that killed up to twelve million people.<ref>http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0310.asp#2</ref> Duranty also claimed other journalists who reported the truth of the USSR, such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, were liars.<ref>http://www.ucca.org/famine/</ref> Muggeridge went on to call Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism." Some of Duranty's most well known lies and falsehoods about Holodomor are:
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Duranty is best known for his stringent denial of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, known as the [[Holodomor]]. Duranty refused to report on the man-made famine that killed up to twelve million people.<ref>http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0310.asp#2</ref> Duranty also engaged in [[liberal projection|projection]] of his own actions by claiming that other journalists who reported the truth about the USSR, such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, were "liars", even though he provided no proof or evidence to back up his false claims.<ref>http://www.ucca.org/famine/</ref> Muggeridge went on to call Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism." Some of Duranty's most well known lies and falsehoods about Holodomor are:
*"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
*"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
**--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
**--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
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Bruce S. Thornton wrote:
Bruce S. Thornton wrote:
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* Walter Duranty stands as perhaps the quintessential fellow-traveler, killing news reports of famine and writing that Ukrainians were “healthier and more cheerful” than he had expected, and that markets were overflowing with food—this at the height of Stalin's slaughter of the kulaks. [http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0605bt.html]
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* Walter Duranty stands as perhaps the quintessential fellow-traveler, killing news reports of famine and writing that Ukrainians were "healthier and more cheerful" than he had expected, and that markets were overflowing with food—this at the height of Stalin's slaughter of the kulaks. [http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0605bt.html]