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 Rindsberg in 2020 | |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
Ashley Rindsberg is an American writer and a senior editor at Pirate Wires , an American online media company. He is the author of Tel Aviv Stories (2011) and The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History (2021).
Ashley Rindsberg graduated from Cornell University with a degree in philosophy and a BA in Science and Technology Studies, focusing on the philosophy of science and innovation theory. [1]
Rindsberg has taught and tutored in writing. [1]
In 2001, Rindsberg began working with the History of Recent Science and Technology Project at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT. This was a project to digitize the printed archive at the Cornell Center for Materials Science. [1]
In May 2003, he was working with the Internet Archive on their bookmobile project. [2] [1] By that August, he was in Alexandria to help build one for Bibliotheca Alexandrina. [3]
Rindsberg has published articles critical of Wikipedia, suggesting bias, for example in the coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk. In September 2025, Stephen Harrison wrote 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." [4] In November 2025, Rindsberg wrote articles for the online blog Pirate Wires about Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. [5] [6] Rindsberg announced in October 2024 that he was joining the blog as a senior editor. [7]
After moving to Tel Aviv, Rindsberg published his first book, Tel Aviv Stories, in 2011. The work is a collection of seven fictional short stories based on the people he met while wandering the city's underbelly at night. The Jerusalem Post described Rindsberg's writing as "measured and inviting", with the book displaying a "depth of feeling." [8] [9] [10] Naomi Firestone-Teeter, CEO of the Jewish Book Council, added the book to her recommending reading. [11]
In 2021, Rindsberg wrote about alleged misreporting by The New York Times in his book The Gray Lady Winked: How The New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History. He said, while reading a footnote in William L. Shirer's classic work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , that 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. [12] (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. [13] 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". [14] 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. [15] Overall, the banner headline across page one read "German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Ports Blockaded; Danzig Is Accepted Into Reich". [16] ) 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 book. [17] [18]
Max Hunder wrote in the Kyiv Post that the "main body of his work is factual and well-researched and can be read as a reasonable case for the prosecution against the journalistic mistakes" of the New York Times. However, Hunder notes the book's preface was written by controversial professor Mark Crispin Miller, which Rindsberg says he included because the book was about media narratives. [19] In the Times of Israel, journalist Sheldon Kirshner wrote "Rindsberg's sweeping indictment of the Times seems unfair and essentially wrong. The Times has hurtled off the rails on a few unfortunate occasions, as he shows, but it remains the gold standard in contemporary journalism." [20]
In 2019, he was working on In The Heart of the Jungle, a novel that drew from his own homes and travels around the world. [9]
In the mid-2000s, [8] he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, where he was living as of 2019. As of June 2019 [update] , he was married to a Londoner. [9]
The goal –to provide universal access to all knowledge. But the issue of copyright is proving an impediment, writes Jack Schofield
Disinformation, generalizations, and outright lies are allowed to go unchecked on the free encyclopedia's Arabic version.
Measures were taken by an arbitration committee following off-wiki coordination endeavors
'Tel Aviv Stories' showcases the city's underbelly, warts and all.
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