How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History

About this episode:

As flagship of the American news media, the New York Times is the world’s most powerful news outlet. It doesn't just cover the news: it creates it.

In The Gray Lady Winked, Ashley 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:

- How its World War II Berlin bureau chief, a known Nazi collaborator, skewed coverage in favor of the Third Reich for over a decade.

- Its notorious coverup of the Ukraine Famine, a genocide committed by Stalin, showing that it was the newspaper's owners who directed the coverup in order to advance their own financial and ideological interests.

- The “1619 Project,” a cynical, ideologically driven attempt to revise American history by rooting the nation's birth in slavery instead of liberty.

The Gray Lady Winked presents a cautionary tale that shows what happens when the guardians of the truth abandon that sacred value in favor of self-interest and ideology-and what this means for our future as much as for our past.