Interesting this timeline of the NYT "losing its way" only begins at the point of allowing Trump to be elected - I seem to recall a lot of stuff written in that paper around 2001 which was obviously not consistent with the ethical and professional practice of journalism, to the degree that we as middle-schoolers learned the concept of "manufacturing consent" to describe what was happening in the news. And the timeline begins here for me just due to age; probably it goes back further