This should be mandatory reading in every journalism school and for every high school or college newspaper reporter or editor. It is a stunning reveal as to how the New York Times has for decades dishonestly chosen to report, not to report and otherwise to manipulate the news solely to advance its corporate interests and preferred narratives.
The author reviews a number of major
stories in the newspaper over the last 100 years or so, asks questions that reporters or editors should have asked but never did if facts mattered and notes the personal connections and political ambitions of the reporters and/or the family who control the paper. By doing so in a straightforward and unemotional way, the author debunks any notion that the New York Times should be taken seriously, much less as a supposed newspaper of record. Some of the paper’s terrible journalism is well known - the tragedy of how and why the paper refused to cover the Holocaust in any serious way (and as a result may indirectly have led to the deaths of innumerable innocent people) has been the subject of countless high school and college theses. Relatedly, like its Holocaust non-coverage, the newspaper’s bizarre, laser-like, decades-long focus on relentlessly criticizing the Jewish State of Israel while equally relentlessly downplaying or ignoring altogether those sworn to its extinction, merits a psychological analysis of any number of people but that I’m in no position to make. But the book has much more, eg the Walter Duranty story. Duranty won a Pulitzer for the paper justifying Stalin’s approach to the various problems confronting the Soviet Union in the 1930’s thereby buttressing Stalin’s position and credibility. The Times acknowledged decades later that Duranty’s reporting on the Ukraine, including the famine there in the early 1930s, was “slovenly” but still would not return the Pulitzer; the approach David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan took on reporting on the Diem regime in Vietnam in the early 60’s, including their dealings with President Kennedy, is painful to read and may also have cost countless lives (but did win Halberstam and the Times a Pulitzer). The book concludes with the author’s analysis of the paper’s recently published 1619 Project, yet another Pulitzer winner fro the paper. From a journalistic perspective, as the author points out, that project is yet another story of a New York Times narrative pushed by reporters, editors and a publisher irrespective of the facts or any serious analysis. Even though, as the book also points out, the 1619 project has been severely criticized by historians who have spent their entire lives researching and writing about the history of the founding of our country, the Times not only continues to tout the project but has commercialized it to sell to schools.
Each chapter in the book can be read as a standalone piece making for easy, but still very disturbing, reading.
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