Ashley Rindsberg, author of The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’ Misreporting, Fabrications and Distortions Radically Alter History, spoke to an April 19 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about “how the New York Times gets the Mideast wrong, and why it matters.”
Rindsberg wrote his new book to explain “how false media narratives are created and how they shape the world around us … generally, not for the better.” By “false media narratives,” a term that he prefers to the “highly politicized” phrase “fake news,” Rindsberg is referring to the “promulgation of facts, storylines, and ideas that are designed to suit an ideological or interest-driven agenda of some kind.”
