The idea that we have our own alternative facts didn't come from nowhere. That idea came out of the new york times saying, well, yes, your your history that is going on in academic departments across across the world is nice. Very good for you guys. This over here at the nearer times is now our history. And what does happen, and what we're seeing happen in american society to day, is that other people catch on to that idea they can use this great new tool to their own ends. It's not that my truth is dominant and yours is inferior. It's that you have a particular perspective on the truth. And i have another vantage point of the same
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.