I think it's our conception of truth. Whether we have this idea that the truth is a construct, and it's something that is the product of power. And even if you have good intentions, when you're looking at the truth as something that can be used as a weapon or as a tool, you will end up misusing it. I would say that's the samew you know, these evil people like hitler who stall in for whom the truth is not even a thing. It's just probably like a little plaything, like their cat's toying with, with a toy mouse, or with the real mouse. But that, i think, is the cor deference
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.