New York Times reported that poland had invaded a germany. The story was part of a propaganda ploy designed by knotty brass, says Peter Bergen. They would read the new york times reports on notsy broadcasts because they were so favorable to the notes. And when this was brought to the attention of of the new Yorks management, they threatened to sue them for libel.
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.