211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

<p>Michael Shermer speaks with Ashley Rindsberg about his book <em>The Gray Lady Winked</em> in which he pulls back the curtain on the the world’s most powerful news outlet and flagship of the American news media, the <em>New York Times</em>, 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 <em>New York Times</em>’s greatest journalistic failures, so devastating they changed the course of history.</p>