Growing Podcasts, Bookkeeping Biz, and Creator-Led Companies with David Senra and Mitchell Baldridgeĭevouring Founder’s Biographies, Self-Belief, and the Power of Podcasting with David Senra of Founders PodcastĮric Jorgenson: Wait, wait, wait, before you put your phone down, if you love this podcast, please give it a quick review. The Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Balaji Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Investing, and more) They are looking at stealth editing (when reporters go back and edit stories), how sourcing is used, metrics for reliability, and measuring polarizing language. They are often unsung.Īshley is working on a company building tools to monitor media. There are still heroes and great reporters in media.

But they are actually just pro-themselves.'

In another chapter, they seem pro-fascist. They are the throughline of book: 'In one chapter, they seem pro-communist. The Ochs-Sulzberger family controls the NYT. Ashley attributes their major failures to a toxic stew of ideological and economic interest. When NYT is wrong, they are really wrong. Duranty did so under direction from NYT higher ups.Īshley’s book also covers NYT misreports about Cuba, the Vietnam War, the atomic bombing of Japan, and the Iraq War. Reporter Walter Duranty outright denied the Ukraine famine (which killed ~4 million people) when the country was under Stalin’s control. NYT strategically and deliberately avoided writing about the holocaust, despite proof that they were aware. Recently trust in media has declined, and now this book's time has come.Īshley stumbled on a footnote in 'The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.' The day Germany Invaded Poland, NYT ran a story about Poland invading Germany. Publishers were afraid of angering the NYT. Ashley wrote most of the book in 20s but wasn’t able to get it published for 15 years.

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