Conservative authors long have charged the New York Times with skewing its best-seller list against them, but now, citing the Times’ low ranking of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest best-seller, a major publisher is severing its ties with the “paper of record.”
Regnery, pointing to Nielsen BookScan’s figures, based on actual sales through major retailers, contends the Times is rigging its list, ranking D’Souza’s “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left” below books with half as many sales.
“There’s been a lot of talk about the New York Times being fake news, but now we can see the New York Times best-seller list is also fake,” D’Souza said in an interview with WND.
Over the past four weeks, D’Souza’s book – which, as WND reported, contends fascism is a left-wing ideology that has been falsely labeled extreme right – was either No.