How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History 

So basically the NY Times is like the National Enquire for those who beleive they have critical thinking skills.

So is this book going to be a NTY best seller?

The Times reported that "Kristallnacht" happened in Austria. My own city's paper, The Boston Globe, reported it accurately and devoted the whole front page to it!

Shermer's tyranophilia point deserved more consideration, I think. Even if opposed to the tyrant's ideology, a lot of people think "hey, that guy can get things done. We need something like that for our vision."

It's getting Orwellian out there "He who controls the past controls the future"

The New Woke Times Tagline: "The toilet paper of record... All the news that's fit to flush."

Who would buy that crap..thats my question..unbelievable

1:24:53 '"We need to make society safe and accessible for all". That's impossible. That idea is what is fundamentally wrong with modern America.

Thanks for the video michael

Great conversation. Thanks.

Stating the obvious from the outside: the US needs a centrist political party to break this polarization.

History is rewritten by the ones in power.

Who needs toilet paper when the NY Times is around?

Great interview thank you

I'll bite, where are the examples of the other papers that DID call out the horrors of the Holocaust during the time period he's accusing the NYT of NOT publishing? Why aren't those facts important? The lack of nuance in this discussion is infuriating.

outstanding expose!

Wow. That's courageous. Speaking truth to the power always is. Did not expect this here

Great interview. Pretty sad to hear such a dark history of the NY Times.

Truth is measured but not absolute. Justice is also a virtue aside from truth.

He does make a great point about Truth and how we affiliate to the idea. Reminds me a lot of the debate between Peterson and Harris. It also shows how people assign the Right/Conservative label on Peterson (though I mostly disagree with this weak generalization of his positions). When Truth gets associated with usefulness and purpose, it gets corrupted. Granted, people have tendencies and it may be true that humanity cannot decouple from anthropomorphism of perspective which includes truth claims. This leads into where we reside culturally currently in the philosophizing of what was once considered religiously 'settled' through applied spiritual practice and considered 'truth'.

"Poland Invades Germany" I only found in the NY Post. I'll search again.

Did The NY Times and IBM have a “relationship” of any kind with each other in the 30’s and 40’s, I’m wondering?

"Stalin is a great guy! He's colossal! He's stupend-e-ous! He's even mediocre! Hot-cha-cha-cha-cha-chaaaaaaaaa!" Oops, wrong Durante.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.”

1:17:00 I think he misses the mark on safe-space ideology. I think it's less an ideological distinction of safety (at least in the Tom Cotton article calling for policing protesting). I think the position being held is that by promoting an escalation of policing (to be fair, I endorse Cotton's position of the need for presence or intervention at the protests), that Black protesters would be in danger of not being able to protest without possibly being hurt/jailed/killed due to policing tactics. The idea being that protest necessarily includes violence/looting/destruction due to the emotional opposition that is the reason FOR protesting. For example, the Boston Tea Party. As the abortion issue includes very emotional nuanced discussion, so does the protesting discussion and ancillary effects and discussions (media etc) surrounding it. My take is that protest has become synonymous to warfare or terrorism, where ends justify means instead of protest being a way to exercise attention for purposes of wanting change. It has become viewed as a means for producing change itself, and in that way, is now interpreted as that CHANGE is both warranted and justified by protest being the proof, instead of protest being the elevated plea for the need for attention and social discourse of the issues. It's why I also think the REACTION to the kneeling protest actions in football were so harmful, because those peaceful protests were so adamantly opposed socially, that it sent a message that the only way for the protests to be taken seriously needed to include outrage (violence/destruction) to be taken seriously by the Black community (at least I see it was interpreted that way). Nuance people, nuance.

24:50 Hydro-Quebec sells water, of course since it is in their name! They also created the water molecules, of course it is in their name!

52:38 Michael Shermer seems to side with the point of view that slavery was a factor at the beginning of the Civil War. Regardless of whether it was or not, the fact remains that slavery was LEGAL and if Lincoln went to war to end slavery, then that was an illegal act of aggression. The proper way to end slavery would have been by legal means and not by force. Can anyone show me a legal document by Congress where slavery was outlawed prior to the beginning of the Civil War?

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Speaking of both enlightenment and journalistic integrity (as well as intellectual rigor), please do inform your own fans Michael of proof of Nietzsche's *"White Supremacy"* . If anyone else can make sense of this claim or hears Shermer actually back up his off-the-cuff Progressive meme affiliation quip, I'd be very interested in knowing about it. Integrity is tough, I guess at least we get to see how it's so easily squandered.

"Institutional Munchhausen's"

Thoughtful conversation, tacky and mindless comments 😒

NY TIMES is the worst.

NYT can improve. Let others try to do better. Perhaps a band of three services can match the Times for a go-to source. Would you prefer the NYT collapse?

Algorithm.

Michael, I understand and admire your skepticism, but sometimes it seems like it leans more towards the goal of debunking in order to support your priors rather than on using the scientific method without pre-judgement. With regards to the new info on UAPs or UFOs, it would be healthy to approach it from an inquisitive perspective which would allow for a discovery phase first before looking to shoot down any information that comes forward just because of its subject matter. With that said I'm still a fan and support your work.

Because Im sceptical. Let me remind you in 1946, in some states you could kill a black man without be hold responsible in a court. This is when the hole world was in shock knowing how the Nazis , tried to erase especially Jewish . And you have apartheid up in the 60’ties. And even from above it seems to be better being a collared person, we still see a biased country I think Europe are going on the same path. And I need to say as long religion is regarded as a overbuilding for moral, and have so much power, kids might go in a school where creationism is forced by parents to avoid their kids at least having a choice to make their own decision. Which they not have, because the stigmata/ and group pressure is so powerful they have to risk loosing job, can’t rent an apartment and trying to run for an office seems to be impossible in almost every state. But the history of US is so messy, and you refer to an insane hunt for one newspaper , but this is not I’m trying defending NT. but I’m not sure if US as a hole have been trying to acknowledge how violent a country you have been living in. South American, , the native & black peoples and all kinds of war . Frankly some of your president should have been prosecuted, for crimes against humanity. But the only person I heard say anything about it, is the late C. Hitchens. But besides a few- no one did openly support him. I wonder why he was almost alone when he enlighten us all. I wonder why you are not doing a book about your blind eye for this! The truth is beyond your self . But a lot of circumstantial facts and digging deep into our history. But I think we will be better than before. Due to (ironic because of )the internet . But as mentioned, we need to raise the level for decency and respect and especially how science does it should be a goal for everyone. But it might take some time, before we evolve.

Why are you focusing just on the New York Times. Name any media outlet that authentically reports the news and investigates the facts????........... Crickets chirping!

Their bazaar support fo Biden...

1:03:20 data shows X so Ben starts posting anecdote after anecdote Facts don't care about your anecdotes, Ben

Yeah but there is no proof of anything because where is all the rubbish????? Michael to himself “I only know I exist because I make rubbish”……

Get over it. You're not writing for the New York Times.