original_query: What were the criticisms of Duranty's account of the famine in the Soviet Union and what were the consequences for journalists who reported differently?
query: What were the criticisms of Walter Duranty's account of the Soviet famine of 1932-1933, and what were the consequences for journalists who reported differently?
answer: Critics, including Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, condemned Walter Duranty's downplaying of the famine's severity and death toll.  Journalists who offered differing accounts, like Muggeridge and Jones, faced consequences such as being banned from returning to the Soviet Union.