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

Adolph Ochs, founder of the Times dynasty that has owned and operated the paper for more than a century, boldly stated that the Times’s mission is “to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect or interests involved.”1 We’ve seen in this book that the Times failed in this regard—drastically and often tragically. Aga

we have to search for a more objectively true account.

whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons

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

This is where this approach becomes toxic. Only an information outlet with the experience and savvy of a century, like the Times (and, maybe, only the Times itself), could produce an initiative at the level of The 1619 Project. But all that means is that other self-serving, truth-questioning endeavors will meet a lower standard of production. The t

The New York Times was built with a very different standard in mind than the one embraced by the creators of The 1619 Project, who look at truth as a malleable substance, a “construct,”

these major failings, which had an indelible impact on history’s unfolding, to the phenomenon that being great means being alone, which leads us to error since there is no one there to check our mistakes or balance our thinking. And that may be the case. But if there is one overriding aim of this book it is not just to call attention to errors like

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.