The New York Times and the Holycost

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In the six years of the war, the new york times printed holicot related stories on its front page exactly six times. Never once in the more than 18 thousand issues during the war, was the holycost story a lead article for the day. The paper failed his call for journalists to not turn their faces away from the sight of other people's suffering. Wut wilye: There has never been a reckoning with media institutions where they've held themselves accountable.

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.