times . it s worse than fake news. it has been an extremely destructive force in this country and outside this country. i wrote a book called on freedom of the press based on research and scholarship. i want to tell you about the new york times it will take a little while so sit back in here we go. in 1984 doctor weinman in his book the abandonment of the jews of the holocaust explained that one reason ordinary americans were not more responsive to the plight of european jews was that very many or a majority were unaware of hitler s extermination probe through 1944 or later. the information was not readily available because the mass media treated the systematic murder of millions of jurors on - as jews as minor news he was not jewish