
211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
The Michael Shermer Show
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New York Times - The Gray Lady Winked
The new york times has been owned by the same family, the ox alzburgers, for the last a hundred and 20 years or so. It was initially bought by the founder of that dynasty, adolf ox, who was a german jewish emigrant to the us. He set out this mission to create a newspaper that would just bring the facts and do it in what he called parliamentary a language. That roll was passed down through the family, and that quickly made it into a dynasty. What we see with dynasties is that while the founder of the dynasty might be very committed to a particular mission, in this case, bringing the news, gathering the facts,
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