The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

And this is where each of us bears a responsibility that grows more important every day. Just as we have a responsibility to safeguard our environment, our neighborhoods, and our communities, we have a responsibility to safeguard truth and history so they will be shared resources for generations to come, and not the purview of a small subset of spe

The executive editor of the most influential literary agency in the US said he could not risk his relationship with the paper, on which he depends for reviews and publicity for his authors. Publishers who are brand names in the industry balked. Even freelance designers and editors refused to work on the book, saying it was not a risk they could aff

The paper, in other words, did not merely cover the news—it created it.

the ideology that holds truth is a substance to be molded to purpose is becoming dominant with frightening speed.

The New York Times’s post-Olympics reporting was in lockstep with Nazi propaganda efforts, even if the paper’s motives were not the same as the Reich’s.

By that point, the State Department and even the New York Times had fully realized and admitted (though never publicly) the extent to which Matthews’s articles, propelled to worldwide prominence by their repeated front-page placement in the Times, had transformed an inexperienced and ill-equipped middle-class student-turned-rebel into a Cuban dicta

fit the facts to a preconceived pattern.

could not survive. Other women gave birth to shapeless deformities. Ninety percent of the children under the age of twelve at the time of the test developed thyroid tumors. In short, the bomb tests ruined the lives of hundreds of people, damning them and their children to shockingly short lifespans and illness.36 And the American public, still unde

In light of how Sulzberger’s newspaper covered the Holocaust, sweeping stories of the deaths of 1,000,000 of his own people under the rug of mundane stories like tests on coal and the deaths of individual Icelanders, the statement is devastatingly hypocritical.