The New York Times represents the Good, the Bad and the Ggly.
They publish lots and lots of good articles, but they are also excellent propagandists, and publish a lot of misleading tripe as well.
How The New York Times was rocked by JK Rowling trans row
Editor hits back at staff for protesting at its coverage of issue
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-york-times-jk-rowling-trans-b2284...
THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.
The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-c...
Cruelty of Language — the NYT’s Leaked Gaza Memo
April 20, 2024
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[NYT memo:]“Words like ‘slaughter’, ‘massacre’ and ‘carnage’ often convey more emotion than information. Think hard before using them in our own voice....”
Though such language control is, according to the NYT, aimed at fairness for “all sides,” their application was almost entirely one-sided.
For example, a previous Intercept report showed that the American newspaper had, between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14, mentioned the word “massacre” 53 times when it referred to Israelis being killed by Palestinians and only once in reference to Palestinians being killed by Israel...."
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/20/cruelty-of-language-the-nyts-leake...
Some still imagine the NYT is the pre-eminent US "Newspaper of Record", The Wikipedia definition is:
"A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent.
The NYT is "authoritative" as conduit for US state messaging and justifying war crimes and operates "independent" from truth.
