Agreed, the NY Times is left-wing. But both they and the Wall Street Journal did one heck of a job after 9/11, covering the city. And they do a great job of covering basebal & track, two of my favorite sports. (The Wall Street Journal obviously has a better editorial page).
As an aside, the Times (like many newspapers), is in trouble. Primarily because newspapers are a 19th century phenomenon.. The internet is marginalizing newspapers, much like the auto marginalized trains. Even conservative papers like the Wall Street Journal are feeling the pinch.
The NY Slimes was not part of this recent questioning re paid subscribers.
A year ago they lost Ad$'s and one of the points brought up was they used circulation inflation by using the nearly free newspapers going to students all over America and many parts of the world.
The last report on their ad$s showed a continuing decrease.