NYT is trying to catch up with WaPo, which completely went off the deep end. I would give Russia Today more credibility than WaPo. These days WaPo is more like Global Times of Chicom.
Back deep in the cold war, U.S. school kids were told that the U.S.'s Radio Free Europe broadcast the truth to the people in the Soviet Union and behind the Iron Curtain in order to counteract the lies of Pravda and the Communist-controlled media.
Nowadays. in the US, ABCCBSCNNNBCNYTPBSWP are the Communist "Pravda" spewing lies, and the American people have to rely on conservative websites to get the truth. This is evidenced by the NYT attack on conservatives.