> It's a term of art [..] "A newspaper of record is a major newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authori

> It's a term of art [..] "A newspaper of record is a major newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative." One definition of "authoritative" would be "able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable" I'm not sure how anyone could seriously believe that to be an appropriate way to describe the NYT (or indeed any of their major competitors). To be blunt: they're "accurate" and/or "true", except for the all the times when they aren't.