
In the documentary Reporting on The Times: How the paper of record ignored the Holocaust, past editors of the newspaper stated that there was a conscious decision to bury the paper's Holocaust coverage. Between 19, the Times published more than 23,000 front-page stories - a half of which were about World War II - and only 26 were about the Holocaust. According to the 2005 book " Buried by the Times" by Laurel Leff, it buried in the back pages of the paper stories about the genocide of European Jews, and avoided mentions of Jewish victims of persecutions, deportations, and death camps. The Times has been criticized for its coverage of the Holocaust.

In comments to the press he stated, "For the sake of The New York Times' honor, they should take the prize away." Coverage of the Holocaust

Von Hagen found Duranty's reports to be unbalanced and uncritical, and that they far too often gave voice to Stalinist propaganda. In 2003, after the Pulitzer Board began a renewed inquiry, the Times hired Mark von Hagen, professor of Russian history at Columbia University, to review Duranty's work.
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Duranty wrote a series of stories in 1931 on the Soviet Union and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Holodomor, the Ukraine famine in the 1930s. The New York Times was criticized for the work of reporter Walter Duranty, who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936. "The main censor and the main propagandist was the hope and fear in the minds of reporters and editors." Coverage of the Holodomor "The news about Russia is an example of what people wanted to see, not what happened," Lippmann and Merz wrote. Their findings, published as a supplement of The New Republic, concluded that The New York Times ' reporting was neither unbiased nor accurate, adding that the newspaper's news stories were not based on facts but "were determined by the hopes of the men who made up the news organizations." Lippmann and Merz alleged that the newspaper referred to events that had not taken place, atrocities that did not exist, and that it reported no fewer than 91 times that the Bolshevik regime was on the verge of collapse. In 1920, Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz investigated the coverage of the Russian Revolution by The New York Times from 1917 to 1920. It has been accused of antisemitism, bias, and playing a notable role in influencing the Iraq War due to its misleading coverage of Saddam Hussein. It is one of the largest newspapers in the United States and the world, and is considered to have worldwide influence and readership. The New York Times has been involved in many controversies since its foundation in 1851. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings.

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