#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
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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