I would, i would never have got into that without this kind of reporting, there's no chance in the world i would find it on a blog. But again, a what we're seen with the times and with other news organizations, is this huge concentration of power in a very small number of organizations. And when you mix that with the need to just tell the truth plainly as it is, you've got a conflict. You've got a clash. That's why these conversations about blatchin and crypto, decentralization of institutions an power structures is very valuable for media. We need to start in visioning some approach to media, to journalism, that isn't so vertical, that
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.