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The grey lady winked
The grey lady winked








the grey lady winked

The New York Times, aptly referred to as a “former newspaper” by the great Andrew Klavan (whose interviews with the author were what inspired this reviewer to pick up a copy), is undoubtedly a juggernaut, the crown jewel of America’s news media, and its considerable effect on public opinion served as a bulwark against Rindsberg’s efforts to get this work into the hands of American readers.

the grey lady winked

And, as anyone who leafs through a single chapter of The Gray Lady Winked will soon discover, the truth is no friend of the New York Times. That said, his conclusion wraps his primary subject neatly, and contains a clever observation: “To believe that the truth is ‘mine’ is to believe it does not exist.” But, as Rindsberg himself says – it does. In the final chapter, he veers from the comfortable pattern of exposition, explanation, and argument that he sets in previous chapters, and settles on some acute commentary that admittedly has little to do with his central thesis. By the end of the book, the reader is left with a veritable rogue’s gallery of journalistic malfeasants, each of whom were summarily blinded by either their political convictions, personal ambitions, or both – and either obscured the truth or outright lied to the Times’s enormous audience. In each case, Rindsberg succinctly explains the historical circumstances before describing the paper’s mendacity and the employees responsible. The Gray Lady Winked spends each chapter focusing on a different impactful period in the history of the New York Times, and thus the history of the United States.










The grey lady winked