Is a Class Room a Safe Space?

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The whole point of going to college, the whole tealos of a university, is to confront ideas, whatever they are that you've never heard of. The new york times has chosen to invest in theories of an ideology of wokeovement rather than those of its younger audience. And i do think that there is a significant financial motivation for doing so.

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.