Benjamin Kerstein, Israel Correspondent, The Algemeiner Studiously researched and eloquently written, this volume provides us with an indispensable antidote to the halo effect that the Times has enjoyed for so long.” But Rindsberg exposes journalistic scandals well beyond what is commonly known. “We are all aware that the New York Times has its fair share of biases and more than a few disgraces. Jenny Holland, Author & Former Times Staffer “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.” Rindsberg has an important story to tell to anyone who has ever opened the pages 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. It is a brave piece of historical journey into the annals of the New York Times.
“Rindsberg’s timely book deals with the abuse of information for political purposes. Liel Leibovitz, Editor-at-Large, Tablet Magazine 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.” “With the researcher’s eye for the damning detail and the novelist’s feel for the egos and appetites that animate great characters, Ashley Rindsberg has produced an eminently readable account of why a formerly great American newspaper betrayed its principles and how its decline made us all the poorer.
The Times’ importance means the family’s issues have done much damage.” 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. “In an account brimming with fascinating, if morbid, detail, Ashley Rindsberg rigorously exposes the dark side of the New York Times.
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