Ashley is a novelist, media commentator, and non-fiction author of The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times’ Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Altered History. He has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and Publisher’s Weekly, among other publications. Ashley previously contributed to a history of science archive project for MIT and later worked at Internet Archive, where he helped bring the Internet Bookmobile to Egypt’s Library of Alexandria. Follow Ashley on Twitter @ashleyrindsberg and order a copy of his book at thegrayladywinked.com.
[2:18] - How Ashley’s odyssey at sea reframed his approach to life
[16:56] - Ashley’s motivation to write The Gray Lady Winked
[26:57] - The changing culture and media landscape which allowed Ashley to publish his book
[34:16] - The broken incentive structure and imbalanced business model of modern media
[51:39] - Defining creative destruction in the context of media
[54:16] - The New York Times’ historical patriarchy and hypocritical nepotism
[1:03:19] - Ashley’s comparison of the New York Times’ practices to other popular media institutions
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