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

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Links:

The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg

Ashley on Twitter

Ashley on Substack

Ashley’s writing

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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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