>It's sits center-left in that study because the study centers around the center of US media coverage, not any principled definition of political center; the NY

>It's sits center-left in that study because the study centers around the center of US media coverage, not any principled definition of political center; the NY Times viewpoint is, and has long been, neoliberal corporate capitalist Your contention is that the center is really defined by the progressive/Marxist/"democratic socialist" minority? In that case, I guess anything to the right of that minority (i.e. everything) would be see as right-wing. Unfortunately, that's not the actual center. A better descriptor for those groups is 'far left'.