It's also worth examining the vested interests at play here — the author is a founder, and runs a Twitter account with 2M followers, so has, to put it mildly, a

It's also worth examining the vested interests at play here — the author is a founder, and runs a Twitter account with 2M followers, so has, to put it mildly, a vested interest in calling the "old way" of measuring credibility of NYT and WaPo outdated. Often you find the people most loudly saying "Don't play status games" are in fact just playing another kind of status game.