The Gray Lady Winked Quotes

“Less than two months later, Sulzberger was at another prominent function the New York Times found newsworthy: the marriage of his daughter. The nuptials were a full blown affair, and accordingly, the Times devoted 880 words to the event—more than eight times the amount of space that it gave to the findings of the Bund report, which reported the 700,000-person massacre.”
― Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

“The New York Times was not scrutinized the way any institution that serves a critical public function ought to be. No one was watching the watchdog.”
― Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

“Over and over, decision makers in publishing told me explicitly, in no uncertain terms, that they could not support the project because the New York Times was simply too powerful.”
― Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

“journalists’ professional philosophy that reporting means providing facts, not morals. This kind of facts-only approach to American journalism continued well into the Vietnam War, during which American reporters avoided using terms like “massacre” and “genocide” for fear of crossing the fine line between reporting facts and making ethical judgments.”
― Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

“As McWhorter points out, critical theory considers logic, reason’s most fundamental tool, to be a social construct that serves power.”
― Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History