Every story that you see reported on these u a ps, these unidentified aerial phenomenon, says that it was covered by the new york times in 20 17. But when you actually look that up, the main journalist behind that piece is a woman named leslie keen and she wrote probably one of the best selling u f o books of all time. Experiences like this is not objective journalism, but people see the new York Times say it's real. And now, first of all, the new Yorks didn't say they're real. They said the government or the pentagon said they'rereal.
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.