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In 10 gripping chapters, The Gray Lady Winked shows how the news media’s flagship outlet, The New York Times, radically—and deliberately—alters history through misreporting, fabrications & distortions.
In this excerpt, you’ll read the story behind one of the most shocking and disastrous episodes of journalistic failure in modern history.
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“The New York Times 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.”
- Glenn GreenwaldJournalist & New York Times Bestselling Author 
“In an account brimming with fascinating, if morbid, detail, Ashley Rindsberg rigorously exposes the dark side of the New York Times. 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. The Times' importance means the family's issues have done much damage.”
-Daniel PipesPresident, Middle East Forum 
“This book is a bracing, urgent reminder of the devastating real-world consequences that arise when an important institution falls in love with the sound of its own voice and puts its power in the service of myth creation on behalf of elites."
Jenny HollandAuthor, Essayist & former New York Times staffer 
"The New York Time has its fair share of biases and more than a few disgraces. But Rindsberg exposes journalistic scandals well beyond what is commonly known. From sympathetic accounts of the rise of the Nazis to legitimizing the Castro tyranny to invented tales of dysfunctional veterans, the Times is here revealed to be not so much a newspaper as a political advocacy group, and one with a long history of often dubious and at times reprehensible activism."
- Benjamin KersteinIsrael Correspondent, The Algemeiner 
"Anyone curious about the New York Times’s path to perdition would do well to begin with this well-crafted story of ideological convictions obscuring grim realities, big personalities obscuring dogged truth-tellers, and unearned reputations obscuring a slow and sad fall from grace.”
-Liel LeibovitzEditor-at-Large, Tablet Magazine 
"This is a brave piece of historical journey into the annals of the New York Times. It shows us how what is now considered to be a new phenomenon, Fake News, belonging to the social media era or to the Trump presidency, began much earlier, and does not belong to only one particular political camp. Rindsberg has an important story to tell to anyone who has ever opened the pages of the New York Times."
Adi SchwartzThe War of Return 
“The New York Times 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.”
- Glenn Greenwald
"Anyone curious about the New York Times’s path to perdition would do well to begin with this well-crafted story of ideological convictions obscuring grim realities, big personalities obscuring dogged truth-tellers, and unearned reputations obscuring a slow and sad fall from grace.”
-Liel LeibovitzEditor-at-Large, Tablet Magazine
"This is a brave piece of historical journey into the annals of the New York Times. It shows us how what is now considered to be a new phenomenon, Fake News, belonging to the social media era or to the Trump presidency, began much earlier, and does not belong to only one particular political camp. Rindsberg has an important story to tell to anyone who has ever opened the pages of the New York Times."
Adi SchwartzThe War of Return
“This book is a bracing, urgent reminder of the devastating real-world consequences that arise when an important institution falls in love with the sound of its own voice and puts its power in the service of myth creation on behalf of elites."
Jenny HollandAuthor & Essayist
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In 10 gripping chapters, The Gray Lady Winked exposes a different side of the famous newspaper known around the world as a standard-bearer for truth.
First complete telling of how the NY Times’s Berlin bureau chief during WWII was a known Nazi-collaborator—and the staggering impact this had on the war.
Real, still-untold story of how the NY Times’s notorious Russia correspondent, Walter Duranty, helped engineer official U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union
Gripping account of how two NY Times Vietnam correspondents worked to successfully turn the tide against the war.
Propagation of a piece of deadly jihadist propaganda by NY Times Mideast reporters and how this rippled around the world.
Creation of the myth of Fidel Castro by the NY Times from a barely known, almost defeated rebel with little more than 10 men into Cuba’s ‘democratic savior.’
Pernicious efforts by the NY Times to sway public opinion against the Iraq War by smearing veterans as homicidal maniacs.
Disturbing and shocking investigation of how—and why—the NY Times buried the Holocaust, all but refusing to report on the catastrophe.
Brazen effort by the NY Times to rewrite American history with the now-infamous 1619 Project and its deliberate attempt to hijack America’s national narrative.
Shocking account of how the NY Times conspired with the Department of War to cover up the health and environmental effects of radiation after the US dropped nuclear bombs of Japan
About Ashley Rindsberg
Ashley Rindsberg is an Israel-based author whose work focuses on the struggle for truth and meaning in an age of crisis. Rindsberg has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and Publisher’s Weekly.
Rindsberg, who studied philosophy at Cornell University, contributed to a history of science archive project for MIT and later worked at Internet Archive, where he helped bring the Internet Bookmobile to Egypt’s Library of Alexandria.
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