The New York Times Reporting That Poland Invaded Germany

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The new york times has won more puleor prizes than any other newspaper by far, almost twice as many as the next competitor. It's a symbol of what we call the fourth estate and the us. People consider it to be true, whatever it might be. And i think that's what more and more people are starting to do around us in the general culture. You no longer a paria if you dare question the new york Times or any of the other rest of the mainstry media, as we now call it. The gray lady, i hope, does. Yes.

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