The NYT has always been a propaganda rag. This piece talks about how Walter Duranty (1884 – 1957) was an apologist for Stalin.

The NYT has a long history of coaxing America into foreign excursions. They they blast the US when the going gets tough.

I used to read the NYT back in the 1970s and 80s. Its political bent was apparent back then.

People talk about how it was a great rag that went bad. I think it has always been a fountain of propaganda. People wake up to the dishonest nature of the paper at different times. I started reading the rag in the 1970s and could no longer bide by the dishonest journalism in the mid 1980s.