By Selwyn Duke

The New York Times is no stranger to fiction. Back in the 1930s, the paper’s Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, outright lied about Stalin’s intentional starving of millions of Ukrainians (and won a Pulitzer prize for doing it). But more recently it has peddled a deception that, though involving an event far less tragic than genocide, is no less brazen.

The issue concerns a February 26 Trayvon Martin video tribute the Times released, and ex-president Barack Obama heavily contributed to and publicized, that turns truth on its head as much as Duranty ever could.

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