The Manhattan -NYT Forced To Admit In Court That Book List Is Biased
-The Economist Calls For Name Change…Or Dissolution
By Staff Writer
The NY Times, They Are A-Changin’
The most famous book list in the world is trending toward infamy. The vaunted New York Times Best Sellers List may need to change its name to the “New York Times Listing To The Left Sellers” after other legacy media (and long ago, a court of law) have called out the Gray Lady.
In 1983, William Peter Blatty, who wrote “The Exorcist”, sued the Times for $6 million, claiming that by excluding his books from their rightful place as best sellers, the newspaper company had defrauded him from publicity that would have generated greater sales.
In the course of the case, the Times argued that while their methodology was not based strictly on sales, it was protected speech under the First Amendment. As the NY Post notes, “The ruling still surprises critics who assumed the list was a direct reflection of books with the highest sales.”
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