New York Times duplicity

Are The Casinos Crooked?

New York Times duplicity?

Ten years ago Author Frederick Lembeck brought evidence of casino dishonesty (mathematical gambling systems which any reporter could see worked better at home than in the casinos) to the attention of The New York Times, WHICH NEVER REPORTED IT in spite of pretending to be interested (see their editor's letter below).

TO THIS DAY THE TIMES REMAINS SILENT, REFUSING TO BLOW THE WHISTLE ON CASINO DISHONESTY WHILE GROWING RICH FROM CASINO ADVERTISING.

(Ask them about this, below. It's a free email. I'm not saying anyone's been emailing me behind the Times' back, but if they tell you the letter below is a fraud, then ask why haven't they called in the New York City Police?

If they tell you they don't know anything about any of this, make an appointment to check back in a month and see if they still don't know anything about it. See if you can get them to give you a date on which they WILL know something about it. Consider it your introduction to what's starting to be known as "the Great New York Times stonewall."

But in the meantime, run your own Quick Test of Half Peak please, then see if it's the same in a casino. It's not. But the Times, for reasons they won't discuss, doesn't count casino dishonesty as news that's fit to print.)

The story starts here:

The letter below is from Joseph Lelyveld, Executive Editor of the New York Times, to Frederick Lembeck, Author of Beat The House, acknowledging that the Times knows about Beat The House and its message that the casinos are crooked, and further stating that he referred the matter to an unnamed NY Times editor for further action. (Underlining added by recipient.)

But there was no further action.

DID THE TIMES KILL THE STORY?

If so, on whose orders? For what reason?

Might the reason have been the staggering amount of money the New York Times Company takes in every year from gaming advertising?

How much money DOES the New York Times Company take in from the gaming industry? How much does their radio station WQXR take in from Monaco alone, just that one account?

Is that the amount it takes to buy the silence of the New York Times?

If you'd like to hear the New York Times' side of the story, click on the link below to send them an email. Let them know people are wondering. (Copy and Paste the URL of this page for their convenience.)

Click Here to email The New York Times

Q. When they ignore you, what then?

A. When they ignore you, you'll have to write to their advertisers. Hell will be covered with glaciers a mile deep before their advertisers will ignore you. (The Times won't ignore their advertisers because advertising is where most of their money comes from, even more than from subscriptions.)

At some point the Times has to stop ignoring this matter. That point is when the advertisers start grumbling. That's when we get to find out the truth of what went down.

After the Times ignores you, write to an advertiser and see if HE ignores you.

Click Here to Download Joseph Lelyveld's letter to Frederick Lembeck (PDF)

NOTE: Jeff Ort was transferred from the Times' news department to their promotion department shortly before Joseph Lelyveld drafted the above letter denying that Ort was a Times editor (February 10, 1997) but Ort's job title prior to the transfer wasn't merely Editor but SENIOR EDITOR. (See if the Times' will admit this or lie about it.) What kind of trickery is Lelyveld sinking to here?

What prompted this curiously-timed, mid-career reassignment out of the news department? Is something being hidden here? (Your inquiry will be ignored but try anyway for the sake of experiencing the New York Times stonewall firsthand, so you can bear witness.)

Editorial

Are The NY Times Bad Guys?

No. Somebody made a mistake, that's all. The real question here is vengeance or forgiveness, whether America's going to be a place of vindictiveness and retaliation, or a place of forgiveness and grace. The door to redemption must be kept open, not just for the New York Times' sake, but for everybody's. Whatever kind of America we make together, that's the kind of America we're all going to end up living in. Let it be a place of niceness, not nastiness.

The Times should be allowed a chance to redeem themselves. If they go after the crooked casinos the way a pit bull goes after a rib steak people will know they're sincere about correcting whatever mistake was made. If, on the other hand, they resist going after the crooked casinos, people will rightly wonder why.

Frederick Lembeck