He's kind of late to the party, given that others have been pointing out the various problems with the NYT for years. The main problem they have is that they c

He's kind of late to the party, given that others have been pointing out the various problems with the NYT for years. The main problem they have is that they can no longer truly frame themselves as the "newspaper of record". They have been too partisan for too long on the political front, and the quality of their writing has declined too far, to be taken seriously as the "best" newspaper. The purple prose, the injection of the writer's too-cute witticisms and observations into what should be factual reporting, and their sometimes quite odd choices of what to run on the front page, have finally caught up with them.