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Ashley is a novelist, media commentator, and non-fiction author of The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times\u2019 Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Altered History. He has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and Publisher\u2019s Weekly, among other publications. Ashley previously contributed to a history of science archive project for MIT and later worked at Internet Archive, where he helped bring the Internet Bookmobile to Egypt\u2019s Library of Alexandria. Follow Ashley on Twitter @ashleyrindsberg and order a copy of his book at thegrayladywinked.com.

[2:18] - How Ashley\u2019s odyssey at sea reframed his approach to life

[16:56] - Ashley\u2019s motivation to write The Gray Lady Winked

[26:57] - The changing culture and media landscape which allowed Ashley to publish his book

[34:16] - The broken incentive structure and imbalanced business model of modern media

[51:39] - Defining creative destruction in the context of media

[54:16] - The New York Times\u2019 historical patriarchy and hypocritical nepotism

[1:03:19] - Ashley\u2019s comparison of the New York Times\u2019 practices to other popular media institutions

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