The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
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The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
was not until after the systematic mass slaughter of Europe’s Jews that the event was given the name “Holocaust,” which means “a complete burning.”
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
The New York Times is not a manufacturer or crafter of truth, as it sometimes seems to suppose itself, but a receptacle for it. It does not shape the truth—it is shaped by it. If there is one lesson I hope readers take from this book, it is this.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
In religious practice and worship, there is a concept that is directly equivalent to the social justice movement’s idea of a safe space, and that is “the sacred.” In a sacred space, rules are emplaced to prevent outsiders from profaning the space with foreign practices or alien ideas. As guardians of the sacred, true believers will go to any... See more
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
the journalistic errors examined in this book—the misreporting, fabrications, and distortions—were never the product of simple error. Nor were they solely the result of rogue reporters who took their journalistic fates into their own hands. Rather, they were the byproduct of a particular kind of system, a truth-producing machine that though built
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For nearly ten years, the New York Times reported many of these stories by simply reprinting Nazi claims, particularly when it came to Hitler’s peaceful intentions. There was very little journalistic counterbalance in the Times’s reporting on Germany and even less editorial outrage when it came to the Nazi regime’s early crimes. But a closer look
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Walter Duranty is now largely considered a media outlier or an anomaly, a reporter whose character flaws slipped through the editorial cracks of his institution. But the reality is that Duranty fits a prominent pattern at the Times of a star reporter whose celebrity enables him or her to commit journalistic malfeasance in plain sight of his
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But if there is one overriding aim of this book it is not just to call attention to errors like the ones mentioned above but also, and more importantly, to show that our most seemingly infallible institutions are often prone to error. It is to imprint on our consciousness that we have to question not just our sources (since it is difficult to find... See more
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Consequently, once America did get into the war—an action Roosevelt knew was necessary years before Pearl Harbor, as conquest of America was one of the final phases of the Nazis’ larger plan—domestic hatred for Jewish people found expression in the lie that Americans were fighting for the Jews while Jews stayed at home and relaxed.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Washington Post, considered one of the Times’s main competitors, ran an editorial on the day of the opening ceremonies of the Berlin Olympics. Like William Shirer, the Post took a drastically different stance to the New York Times’s breathless praise of the Games, noting the violence in Germany instead of forgetting it and asking serious questions
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