From an article in today’s Financial Times on the Pulitzer prize:

“In Pulitzer Alley [the corridor at the New York Times headquarters where the newspaper honors its Pulitzer prize-winners], one gold-framed plaque has been taken down for what the New York Times calls “restoration”. It honours Walter Duranty, a 1932 winner. But after a series of complaints, the citation will be amended to note questions about his failure to cover the famine in the Soviet Union that year.”

Restoration? The restoration the Times should be interested in is the restoration of its good name. Asking the Pulitzer Committee to withdraw Duranty’s prize would be a start.