{"id":13825,"date":"2025-06-12T04:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:02:16","slug":"the-new-york-times-now-and-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/12\/the-new-york-times-now-and-then\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times (then and now)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oprah Shamed Him. He\u2019s Back Anyway.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Twenty years after \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By <\/strong>Sam Dolnick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"James
James Frey on his custom-made XL Eames chair, at his home in New Canaan, Conn. Credit…Erik Tanner for The New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

James Frey was, for a time, one of the most famous nonfiction writers in America. And then someone checked the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2005, Oprah Winfrey selected his memoir \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d for her book club, only to learn soon after that he had fabricated parts of his story about drug addiction and his time in rehab. She shamed Frey on national TV for betraying the American public, and his publisher offered refunds. He was branded a villain, a fraud \u2014 and became perhaps the first canceled man this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid I lie? Yup,\u201d he told me. \u201cDid I also write a book that tore people to shreds? Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, lies are told with gusto, while facts are distorted and erased at the speed of tapping thumbs. Just scroll on X for a bit, and the Frey affair might look like a horse and buggy that was ticketed for trotting too fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Frey sees it, the public has gotten increasingly comfortable with falsehoods, without getting fully comfortable with him. He finds it all a bit absurd. \u201cI just sit in my castle and giggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Oprah Shamed Him. He\u2019s Back Anyway. Twenty years after \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. By Sam Dolnick James Frey was, for a time, one of the most famous nonfiction writers in America. And then someone checked the facts. In 2005, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oprah Shamed Him. He\u2019s Back Anyway.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Twenty years after \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/strong>Sam Dolnick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"James
James Frey on his custom-made XL Eames chair, at his home in New Canaan, Conn. Credit...Erik Tanner for The New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

James Frey was, for a time, one of the most famous nonfiction writers in America. And then someone checked the facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2005, Oprah Winfrey selected his memoir \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d for her book club, only to learn soon after that he had fabricated parts of his story about drug addiction and his time in rehab. She shamed Frey on national TV for betraying the American public, and his publisher offered refunds. He was branded a villain, a fraud \u2014 and became perhaps the first canceled man this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid I lie? Yup,\u201d he told me. \u201cDid I also write a book that tore people to shreds? Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, lies are told with gusto, while facts are distorted and erased at the speed of tapping thumbs. Just scroll on X for a bit, and the Frey affair might look like a horse and buggy that was ticketed for trotting too fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Frey sees it, the public has gotten increasingly comfortable with falsehoods, without getting fully comfortable with him. He finds it all a bit absurd. \u201cI just sit in my castle and giggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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