The Gray Lady Winked

<p>The <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>New York Times</em> 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. - <strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Glenn Greenwald Journalist & <em>New York Time</em>s Bestselling Author</strong></p><h3><strong>Think a newspaper can't be responsible for mass murder? Think again.</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>As flagship of the American news media the <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>New York Time</em>s is the world's most powerful news outlet. With thousands of reporters covering events from all corners of the globe the <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Times </em>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><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Gray Lady Winked</em> 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 <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Gray Lady Winked</em> offers readers an eye-opening often shocking look at the <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>New York Times's</em> greatest journalistic failures so devastating they changed the course of history.</p><ul><li>How its World War II Berlin bureau chief <strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>a known Nazi collaborator</strong> skewed coverage in favor of the Third Reich for over a decade.</li><li>Its notorious coverup of the <strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Ukraine Famine a genocide committed by Stalin</strong> 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 <strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>a cynical ideologically driven attempt to revise American history</strong> 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 <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Gray Lady Winked</em> 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. - <strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Daniel Pipes President Middle East Forum</strong></p>