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Remember Walter Duranty? We certainly do — not personally, of course, since Duranty died nearly 70 years ago, but Duranty left an indelible stain on journalism before he left. And unfortunately, also helped establish its current model. Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize as the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times, whose journalistic work consisted...