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#056 New York Times’ Radical Distortions and Fabrications with Ashley Rindsberg, Author of “The Gray Lady Winked”

Jan 31, 2023

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Is the New York Times Really Trustworthy?

02:17

What's Happening in the New York Times?

04:13

What Happened When You Got Your Book Published?

03:19

Introduction

5min

The Impact of Cryptocurrency on the Book

2min

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shire

4min

What Happened When You Got Your Book Published?

3min

How Did You Get From One Error to Another?

4min

Is There a Famine in the Ukraine?

3min

The Myth of Fidel Castro

2min

The New York Times and Fidel Castro

3min

The Future of Media

2min

10.

Is There Radiation Poisoning?

2min

11.

Where Does Responsibility Really Lies?

4min

12.

What's Happening in the New York Times?

4min

13.

Is Succession a Good Idea?

2min

14.

The Pulitzer Prize Is Part of That Ecosystem

3min

15.

Is the New York Times Really Trustworthy?

2min

16.

Is the New York Times the Paper of Record?

4min

17.

The New York Times

2min

18.

How Do You Find the Right Sources of Media?

2min

19.

What's the Future of the Media?

3min

20.

What Are the Metrics That You're Pulling Out of Media?

2min

21.

What's Alithium?

3min

22.

What's the Stage of the Company Right Now?

2min

23.

What's Next for You?

2min

24.

The Invisible Hand That's Getting You on a Road

3min

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The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg

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Topics:

(5:02) - The impact of Balaji’s love for your book

(6:54) - When did you realize this book needed to be written?

(10:35) - Rejected by publishers

(11:44) - What changed? How did this get published?

(13:51) - The research and writing process

(18:01) - Examples: Holocaust, Fidel Castro, Vietnam, Atomic Bomb…

(30:45) - Who is responsible for the failures?

(34:45) - Is misreporting happening in other legacy media companies?

(39:15) - Like a real-life ‘Succession’

(43:15) - Do people know about these lies?

(46:04) - Ashley’s broad personal perspective

(52:10) - How Ashley reads the news

(54:27) - The future of legacy media

(57:07) - Building Alitheum to solve these problems

(1:04:58) - Final thoughts

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