Ashley Rindsberg

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Ashley Rindsberg
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Rindsberg in 2020
Born
South Africa
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter
Years active2011–present

Ashley Rindsberg is an American writer and a senior editor at Pirate Wires , an American online media company.

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Personal life

Rindsberg was born in South Africa. In the mid-2000s, [1] he moved to Tel Aviv in Israel, and was still living there in 2019. As of June 2019, he was married to a Londoner. [2] He is Jewish. [3]

Career

In May 2003, Rindsberg was working with the Internet Archive on their bookmobile project. [4] By that August, he was in Alexandria to help build one for Bibliotheca Alexandrina. [5]

After moving to Tel Aviv, his "adopted city", he wandered the streets at night and incorporated the people he met as characters in his first book, Tel Aviv Stories. [2] [6]

In 2019, he was described by The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles as a novelist, working on In The Heart of the Jungle, which drew inspiration from his own homes and travels around the world. [2]

While reading a footnote in William L. Shirer's classic work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , Rindsberg said he learned that "on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War, the New York Times reported that Poland had invaded Germany", rather than the Nazi invasion of Poland as happened. [7] (In fact, Shirer had simply noted that the Times and other newspapers had reported in their September 1, 1939, issues on the Gleiwitz incident and similar border events later known to have been staged by Germany. [8] The Times story about the supposed skirmishes, titled "Border Clashes Increase", ran on the bottom of page three and was attributed to what they described as Germany's "semi-official news agency". [9] Another story referred to by Rindsberg, "Hitler Gives Word" by foreign correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, described at length various German claims and proclamations and was one of many stories about the conflict on the first page. [10] Overall, the banner headline across page one read "German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Ports Blockaded; Danzig Is Accepted Into Reich". [11] ) In any case, Rindsberg said he was inspired to write on the history of The Times' mistakes and the ramifications thereof, accusing the paper of "manufacturing false narratives that serve the paper's political interests" in his 2021 book, [12] The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History. [13]

Rindsberg announced in October 2024 that he was joining the online blog Pirate Wires as a senior editor. [14] He was interviewed and cited by The Jerusalem Post in November and December 2024 about articles he wrote for Pirate Wires regarding Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. [15] [16] In September 2025, Stephen Harrison said in Slate: "Like much of Rindsberg's work, the point isn't to provide information to readers about what's happening on Wikipedia, but to stoke further outrage for attention." [17]

References

  1. ↑ Last, Jeremy (23 June 2011). "Street talk". The Jerusalem Post . ISSN   0792-822X. OCLC   15700704. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2024. 'Tel Aviv Stories' showcases the city's underbelly, warts and all.
  2. 1 2 3 Danan, Deborah (19 June 2019). "Ashley Rindsberg is the American Novelist". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles . Archived from the original on 2 September 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  3. ↑ Rindsberg, Ashley (5 December 2022). "Jewish Life Is Cheap". Tablet . ISSN   1551-2940. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025.[ better source needed ]
  4. ↑ Schofield, Jack (1 May 2005). "Drive to put in a good word". The Guardian . ISSN   1756-3224. OCLC   60623878. Archived from the original on 18 March 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024. The goal –to provide universal access to all knowledge. But the issue of copyright is proving an impediment, writes Jack Schofield
  5. ↑ "Internet Archive Bookmobile". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 14 August 2003. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  6. ↑ "Tel Aviv Stories: Life, Death, and Love in Israel's Unholy City". Kirkus Indie. Kirkus Reviews . 9 September 2014. ISSN   1948-7428. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  7. ↑ Rindsberg, Ashley (2021). The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History. Midnight Oil Publishers. pp. 17–18. ISBN   978-1-7367033-3-5.
  8. ↑ Shirer, William L. (1990). The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks. p. 595n. ISBN   978-0-671-72868-7.
  9. ↑ Wireless to the New York Times (1 September 1939). "Border Clashes Increase". The New York Times. p. 3.
  10. ↑ Tolischus, Otto D. (1 September 1939). "Hitler Gives Word". The New York Times. pp. 1, 3.
  11. ↑ "Front page". The New York Times. 1 September 1939.
  12. ↑ Jivani, Jamil (18 August 2022). Roberts, Rob (ed.). "The Times' credibility problem". National Post . Vol. 24, no. 245. p. A9. ISSN   1486-8008.
  13. ↑ Ball, Krystal; Enjeti, Saagar; Rindsberg, Ashley (14 May 2021). "Journalist Ashley Rindsberg discusses how errors at the NYT can distort reality for readers". Rising . Nexstar Media Group. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  14. ↑ Rindsberg, Ashley [@AshleyRindsberg] (14 October 2024). "I'm really excited to announce that I've joined @PirateWires as Senior Editor" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 14 October 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2025– via Twitter.
  15. ↑ Merlin, Ohad (3 November 2024). "Wikipedia in Arabic: A hotbed for bigotry, misinformation, and bias - investigative report". The Jerusalem Post . ISSN   0792-822X. OCLC   15700704. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025. Disinformation, generalizations, and outright lies are allowed to go unchecked on the free encyclopedia's Arabic version.
  16. ↑ Merlin, Ohad (12 December 2024). "Wikipedia suspends pro-Palestine editors coordinating efforts behind the scenes". The Jerusalem Post . ISSN   0792-822X. OCLC   15700704. Archived from the original on 28 January 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025. Measures were taken by an arbitration committee following off-wiki coordination endeavors
  17. ↑ Harrison, Stephen (17 September 2025). "Why Right-Wing Outlets Attacked Wikipedia After Charlie Kirk's Shooting". Slate. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 23 September 2025.
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