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🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Michael Shermer speaks with Ashley Rindsberg about his book The Gray Lady Winked in which he pulls back the curtain on the the world’s most powerful news outlet and flagship of the American news media, the New York Times, to reveal a quintessentially human organization where ideology, ego, power and politics compete with the more humble need to present the facts. Rindsberg offers an eye-opening, often shocking, look at the New York Times’s greatest journalistic failures, so devastating they changed the course of history.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Shurmer Show. |
0:07.0 | Welcome to the Michael Shurmer Show. |
0:10.0 | I'm your host Michael Shurmer. |
0:12.0 | My guest today is Ashley Rinsberg. His new book is The |
0:14.7 | Gray Lady Winked. How the New York Times misreporting, distortions and fabrications |
0:21.4 | radically alter history. |
0:24.0 | Support this guy, support this book. |
0:26.2 | He had to self-publish it because no publisher would touch it even though he's a |
0:31.0 | already published and respected author because they're all afraid to take on the New York |
0:35.7 | Times. |
0:36.7 | So we talk about how that came to be, who created the New York Times and how they got that reputation |
0:42.1 | that they have, why they're different from other |
0:44.6 | big newspapers like the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post. And then |
0:49.2 | we got kind of go through what he does in his book, kind of |
0:53.2 | their own distortions of the past including their bizarre support of |
0:58.6 | Llanin and Stalin in the bearing of their crimes |
1:02.8 | their misreporting of the start of the Second World War, |
1:06.4 | just swallowing Gerbils lie that Poland invaded Germany on September 1st. |
1:11.2 | So they were just defending themselves. The Times bought into that and |
1:16.4 | then failed to report on the Holocaust, even though they knew it was going on. They pretty |
1:21.0 | much buried it. And all the way up to the present 1619 project which we spent quite |
1:27.9 | a bit of time talking about the whole woke ideology anti-racism movement and all that, how that came about, and how the times made |
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