I also think the individual publisher has a lot to do with whether a newspaper is prone to bias as the NYT is. Pinch Sulzberger, the publisher and voting majority shareholder has always been pretty far left dating back to his misguided youth. He does not have to cajole his editors to swing left. The editors and staff tacitly understand what pleases their boss politically and most share his leftist viewpoint. The ones that do not necessarily share his extreme views like “conservative” columnist David Brooks are compromised by the culture and more often than not Brooks writes RINO left rather than conservative to keep getting a paycheck.. Having said that, Sulzberger is an incompetent manager who has run his rag into the ground. The guy would be sleeping on a grate if his forebears did not own the newspaper.
You can't tell from the edited clips we uploaded, but a large part of our conversation dealt explicitly with the misguided editorial leadership at the paper, especially since A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal was sidelined in the late '80s.