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Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America
The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America. Today, it is generally understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies, tattered liberal pieties, and a repeated victim of journalistic scandal and institutional embarrassment.
In Gray Lady Down, the hard-hitting follow up to Color...more
In Gray Lady Down, the hard-hitting follow up to Color...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
November 16th 2010
by Encounter Books
(first published December 1st 2008)
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There is a reasonable case to be made that the New York Times has been doing sloppy journalism, probably because its current publisher is a man of mediocre talents who would never have gotten the job if his last name wasn't Sulzberger. And I don't think anyone would argue that the paper leans left.
That said, William McGowan is anything but reasonable. He comes off as a strident and vicious critic obsessed with beating back the imminent threats of Islamism, Communism, and 60's counterculture. (I...more
That said, William McGowan is anything but reasonable. He comes off as a strident and vicious critic obsessed with beating back the imminent threats of Islamism, Communism, and 60's counterculture. (I...more
This, of course, comes as no surprise: The New York Times - at least in relatively recent times (i.e. the last 25-30 years) - is patently bias and liberal with an outright admission to such a charge. What was most interesting, to me, was how well documented this "bias" is and how clearly one can see the obviously negative results of such a stance. You really should read it!
My undergraduate degree is in broadcast journalism, so I have a personal interest in the way news is reported. It was disheartening to read this chronicle of the Times' slide into liberal cheerleading. I have a better understanding now of how people could be drawn into this worldview, when they are ingesting a steady diet of bias. In a variety of topics (race, immigration, culture, gays, war on terror, war), McGowan carefully details how the Times has promoted a specific agenda by what they have...more
This is an excellent history of the New York Times in recent years as well as a sad commentary on the decline of "the paper of record" since Arthur Sulzberger Jr's takeover, a period that includes the Jason Blair scandal. It examines the mindset that allowed that to take place and that perpetuates skewed coverage of politicians and issues, and how it went from reporting the news to being news itself.
Although McGowan claims he doesn't want to go "Timeless" his scathing profile of the endless move left and deteriorating journalistic intergrity of the New York Times in Gray Lady Down leaves little room for faith in that position. Missteps major (Jayson Blair and Judith Miller) and more minor are meticulously detailed. Unfortunately, McGowan claims of wanting the paper to succeed bring a hollowness to the book that affects its own claim to integrity.
Ahahahaha. McGowan spells out how the slogan changed from All the News That's Fit to Print" to "All the News That Fits."
He is bemoaning the metamorphosis of the dog-ass NY Times, not screaming about it like some nut.
My copy is in demand at my newspaper office.
He is bemoaning the metamorphosis of the dog-ass NY Times, not screaming about it like some nut.
My copy is in demand at my newspaper office.
Well written, easy to read. tells the story of the general decline in the quality of our news and newspapers.
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