![]() ![]() What I learned writing The Gray Lady Winked is that knowing the explanation doesn’t make the phenomenon easier to understand. It concerns the strange, contorted beliefs of the Ochs-Sulzbergers, the dynasty (or, given that for 120 years it has handed power from male heir to male heir, the patriarchy) that has owned and controlled the New York Times for well over a century. It took me years of researching and writing The Gray Lady Winked, my book about the how the New York Times’s misreporting radically alters history, to learn that there is an explanation. All of which leaves us asking: How do we explain such a thing? ![]() ![]() It was one of hundreds of stories about the murder of six million Jews in Europe that were buried on page 11, or 14, or 20, or not covered at all. The article went on to quote Goebbels, who said, “In this historical showdown every Jew is our enemy, regardless of whether he is vegetating in a Polish ghetto or delays his parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg, or blows the war trumpets in Washington or New York.” The article concluded with Goebbels’s own conclusion-that it was Germany’s determination to “finally finish” the Jews. ![]()
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