The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
<p>“The <i>New York Times</i> is by far the most influential newspaper in the world and thus receives far too little journalistic scrutiny due to its power to affect careers. Any book that casts a critical eye on the Paper of Record's history, as this book does, is performing a valuable service.” — <b>Glenn Greenwald, Journalist & <i>New York Time</i>s Bestselling Author</b></p><h4><b>Think a newspaper can’t be responsible for mass murder? Think again.</b></h4><p>As flagship of the American news media, the <i>New York Time</i>s is the world’s most powerful news outlet. With thousands of reporters covering events from all corners of the globe, the <i>Times </i>has the power to influence wars, foment revolution, shape economies and change the very nature of our culture. It doesn’t just cover the news: it creates it.</p><p><i>The Gray Lady Winked</i> pulls back the curtain on this illustrious institution to reveal a quintessentially human organization where ideology, ego, power and politics compete with the more humble need to present the facts. In its 10 gripping chapters, <i>The Gray Lady Winked</i> offers readers an eye-opening, often shocking, look at the <i>New York Times’s</i> greatest journalistic failures, so devastating they changed the course of history.</p><ul><li>How its World War II Berlin bureau chief, <b>a known Nazi collaborator</b>, skewed coverage in favor of the Third Reich for over a decade.</li><li>Its notorious coverup of the <b>Ukraine Famine, a genocide committed by Stalin</b>, showing that it was the newspaper's owners who directed the coverup in order to advance their own financial and ideological interests.</li><li>The “1619 Project," <b>a cynical, ideologically driven attempt to revise American history</b> by rooting the nation's birth in slavery instead of liberty.</li></ul><p>The result is an essential look at the tangled relationship between media, power and politics in a post-truth world told with novelistic flair to reveal a uniquely powerful institution’s tortured relationship with the truth.</p><p>Most importantly of all, <i>The Gray Lady Winked</i> presents a cautionary tale that shows what happens when the guardians of the truth abandon that sacred value in favor of self-interest and ideology—and what this means for our future as much as for our past.</p><p>“For 99 years—since a 1922 description of Hitler as someone ‘actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism’—it has labored under the shadow of its dynastic owners' triad of problems: capitalist guilt, Jewish self-hatred, and an ambition for power, wealth, and status. — <b>Daniel Pipes, President, Middle East Forum</b></p>