From the article: "These qualities have for generations been helpful in contending with the Times’s familiar problem, which is liberal bias." The NYT lost its

From the article: "These qualities have for generations been helpful in contending with the Times’s familiar problem, which is liberal bias." The NYT lost its way when it internalized the right wing's framing of them as having the hated liberal bias. It was always an effort to work the ref, affirmative action for Republican blowhards. As we've seen in the years since no one is more grievously wounded by that than serious and substantive people on the right, who are now an endangered species not just on the pages of the NYT but in American public life more broadly.