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Ashley Rindsberg

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Ashley Rindsberg is a novelist, essayist and freelance journalist who has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and Publisher’s Weekly, and was founding associate editor of Washington-based outlet, The Tower.

Rindsberg, who was born in South Africa and raised in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Southern California, attended Cornell University, where he studied Philosophy of Science and participated in an MIT-led digital archive project.

In 2003, Rindsberg moved to San Francisco to work at digital NGO, Internet Archive, where he helped bring the Internet Bookmobile to the famed Library of Alexandria in Egypt. He spent the next decade in Tel Aviv honing his literary voice.
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March of the Penguins

Tel Aviv is a liberal place. A portion of its citizens, the urban elite and the young people who hope to join their ranks, pride themselves on their tolerance and openness. They have been schooled in ethnology, anthropology, sociology, and firmly believe in the relativity of values. For them, the notion of hatred is anathema. They are even unwilling to admit the hatred of what is elsewhere called

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“The New York Times was not scrutinized the way any institution that serves a critical public function ought to be. No one was watching the watchdog.”
Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

“Less than two months later, Sulzberger was at another prominent function the New York Times found newsworthy: the marriage of his daughter. The nuptials were a full blown affair, and accordingly, the Times devoted 880 words to the event—more than eight times the amount of space that it gave to the findings of the Bund report, which reported the 700,000-person massacre.”
Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

“journalists’ professional philosophy that reporting means providing facts, not morals. This kind of facts-only approach to American journalism continued well into the Vietnam War, during which American reporters avoided using terms like “massacre” and “genocide” for fear of crossing the fine line between reporting facts and making ethical judgments.”
Ashley Rindsberg, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

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