The New York Times

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The editor of the new york times was hired to bring in some conservative voices so that readers would have some balance. He brought in a united states senator tom cotton, who is republicanis on the right. Bea they've seen that it is become activism, and it's activism for causes they no longer believe in, are never dead.

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.