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Re:April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7% by pjc50 on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:02AM (#23114952)
I'm reminded of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. It's difficult to report even a very high number of deaths in a saturated disinformation environment.
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Re:April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7% by commandlinefan on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:48PM (#23117471)
> the 1932 Pulitzer Prize

Ok, I googled it and I still don't get it... are you talking about the cartoon?

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Re:April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7% by pjc50 on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:37PM (#23117966)
https://www.pulitzer.org/news/statement-walter-duranty

Duranty got the prize for being one of a very small number of Western journalists allowed into Stalin's Soviet Union, and writing about a visit to Ukraine.

He made no mention of the mass famine ongoing at the time, the Holomodor. Wikipedia lists the death toll as "3 to 12 million", because it was a totalitarian state and real measurement was impossible.

So the answer to "is it possible for millions to die and it simply not be reported at the time" is "yes".

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