We all know about Walter Duranty, the infamous New York Times Russia correspondent who covered up the Ukraine famine. And once I started really getting deep into that chapter, I wanted to know more, I wanted to understand. So it just got worse and worse and worse. And they threatened to sue the whistleblower in response. And that was something that the New York Times management and ownership were made aware of. And the reason was because the Times bureau chief, Guido Enderis was a Nazi sympathiser, and Nazi collaborator, he actually worked with them.

So you know, you get to this combination in that particular episode, where learning that the Nazis really favoured the reporting coming out of the New York Times bureau in Berlin. And the more I looked into it, the worse it got-praising the Berlin Olympics as the great est sporting event of all time, characterising Hitler as an unselfish patriot, reassuring readers time after time, that there was nothing to fear in Hitler, and that he was likely to just fizzle out or retire, just become irrelevant.Īgain, this was like a deep pattern. And that led me to look deeper into what was going on more generally in Berlin in the 30s, with the New York Times, and their Berlin bureau. So I started to research what happened there. Q: What made you think of writing this book?Ī: It was really sort of happenstance where I was reading this book by William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, where there was a footnote saying that the New York Times reported on the eve of World War Two that Poland or Polish forces had invaded Germany and sort of given Germany licence to retaliate, at least initially. Rindsberg, who is currently based in Israel, spoke with The Sunday Guardian.

American author Ashley Rindsberg’s book, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History, is a meticulously researched, scathing scrutiny of what is published as news by arguably the world’s most influential newspaper.

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