Reply #8: Their editorial page and their reporting is like night and day

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I read a book about a year ago on the New York Times's foreign coverage which made that point, IIRC.

The book's argument was that the Times is neoliberal to the bone and supports every open market initiative around the world, no matter how antithetical they are to democracy or how much they come through force. They chronicled the mistakes the paper made and the lies they've told for almost 100 years all over the world. I think they said that the editorial page sometimes gets it right (however, they did support the fascist coup in Venezuela in 2002). But the reporting almost never gets it right.

There's also a really good book about African new coverage, Hearts of Darkness, which also chronicles the NYT's bad coverage of African news.