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
The man that the Times article reported as being both “sadder” and “wiser” than when he was first imprisoned went on to construct one of humanity’s darkest regimes, ignited a war that killed tens of millions of people, and engineered the world’s first program of mechanized genocide, making him the last person a reader of the Times should think “was
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On December 21, 1924, the New York Times arguably made the worst prediction in the history of modern journalism: “His behavior during imprisonment convinced authorities that… [he] was no longer to be feared,” the report stated. “It is believed he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the country of his birth.” The “he” of the article w... See more
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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Jews who suffered and the six million who perished in Europe had something in common with the people who ran the newspaper—and this was something that the New York Times’s controlling owners somehow found unacceptable.
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the ideology that holds truth is a substance to be molded to purpose is becoming dominant with frightening speed.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Instead of understanding journalism as either a collection of neutral entities who process unassailable fact into truth or as partisan operators hacking away at an agenda, we should see the endeavor as encompassing a spectrum of ideas and opinions that approximate or come as close as possible to the truth.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
is this, and not his tendency to over-stylize, that ultimately proved fatal to the accuracy of Matthews’s reporting. A number of critics of the journalist, including Anthony DePalma, excused Matthews’s early insistence that Castro was not a communist, arguing that it was really his blind unwavering belief in Castro’s democratic idealism that led to
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There was only one question confronting Nazi leaders: How would the international media portray the games—as the Nazi commandeering of an international tradition, as it was, or as a celebration of a rebuilt, beaming Germany, as Hitler wanted?
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The paper that, for over four years, feverishly likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler was unabashedly pro-Hitler in the Thirties, serving as a sturdy fount of Dr. Goebbels’s propaganda (“reporting,” just as his newspapers did, that Poland invaded Germany on Sept. 1, 1939). The paper that, for twenty years, has made Vladimir Putin out to be a second
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