Why Pick on the Times?

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"The point of journalism is you're not supposed to do that. This is why newspapers have different divisions, the news division and the advertising division," he says. "You like to think someone like the near times would be above all that." 'They are a multi-national corporation with subsidiaries all over the world,' writes Peter Bergen. "'Their influence ist huge' - it's really hard to even describe that kind of reach', adds Bergen.

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.