No, it's a product of the ideological drivel the NYT chose to embrace, identity politics. Not all news outlets are like that.

It became obvious with the literal journalist purge going on there. You can't be a moderate and work there anymore, you have to subscribe to a certain thought framework, if you question it, you're deemed "offensive" and you're out.

What about spiking the Bret Stephens piece about the controversy over the science reporter who was fired? That was this month as well.