Media

News section:
They are center-right on foreign affairs, and are most hawkish on the middle east and Israel.
They are center-left on social issues such as labor protection.

Headline writers are bothsidesist and often nauseatingly so.

NYT as a whole has been muzzled by fear of right-wing attacks.

Haberman/Thrush are courting access to the administration. Haberman especially can't be trusted on all matters politics.

I wish the NYT would start using their brains and start saying things like Kimmel did: "He lied to my face". Call a lie a lie.

Op-eds:
- Blow and Bruni and Krugman are really excellent and truthful and forceful.
- Kristof is amazing (except on 'chemicals', not sure why)
- Douthat is simplistic and rarely interesting; he barely had a real job pre-NYT and it shows. I'd put Friedman in this boat too, sadly
- Brooks used to be a right-wing shill; he's wised up but he no longer has much to write about.
- Dowd: eh. All puns, little substance.
- The right-wing talking point pushers: Stephens, Bari Weiss (+Douthat) - blech blech blech
- Michelle Goldberg: looking forward to her
- The economic/labor liberal writer...................... OH, THERE ISN'T ONE

On the whole: when the NYT writes something, you trust it. That's the 'paper of record' part. They are a great institution, but they need to adapt to the current hostile media environment where both the right and foreign powers are trying to exploit the US press.