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

Links:

The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg (amzn.to/3XOGOqN)
Ashley on Twitter (twitter.com/AshleyRindsberg)
Ashley on Substack (ashleyrindsberg.substack.com)
Ashley’s writing (linktr.ee/ashleyrindsberg)

Sponsor:

MadeByBread.com (madebybread.com)

GiveWell.org (givewell.org)

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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