quick question... NYT is it right or left leaning?

[FirstLight]

Just curious what the consensus is here, please don't flame me for not "knowing" this.
I'm a little out of the loop ...blame it on no cable...

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Neither...

They lean whichever way their corporate advertisers ask them to.

[MineralMan]

2. Both. It all depends on which side you're on, really.

If you stay off the editorial pages and commentary, it's a pretty good newspaper, overall. However, if you only read the right wing columnists or the other columnists, you'll base your opinion on that.

Editorial pages in newspapers appear to be the only pages many people read, it seems sometimes.

[cali]

14. the bulk of the editorials themselves are decidedly left leaning.

[MineralMan]

16. Yes.

[treestar]

3. I've been assured by right wingers

that it's a left wing, communist publication and the only thing that is accurate are the sports scores.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. They are, above all, the voice of the Establishment.

They represent the (slightly) socially liberal, fiscally conservative sentiments and interests of the Old Yankee Ruling Class, which has lately fallen on somewhat hard times due to the increasing power of new oil & gas money among what Kirkpatrick Sale used to call the Cowboy faction.

They wholeheartedly supported the 2001 coup of GWB & his subsequent Iraq Clusterfuck.

[FirstLight]

6. thank you

that answers a LOT!

[flamingdem]

10. Good analysis

and I used to work for them when it had the umpf you describe. The Paper of Record and all that. Now they're scrambling, but seriously there are considerably better than most other mainstream rags.

[cali]

15. nope. the editorials on fiscal issues on generally left leaning

not to mention their most prominent op writer on fiscal issues being Paul Krugman.

As for Sale, his cozying up to the despicable League of the South and Thomas Naylor and the excuses he made, diminishes him.

Why not peruse recent op/ed pages?

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html

[FirstLight]

5. this editorial is from the entire board...june 6

and I think they are actually spot on...does that mean I am no longer a liberal? ...no, seriously....I am actually using this in a english class to make a point and wonder whether I am being too biased or swayed?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?_r=0

"Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.

Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability. "

[Jackpine Radical]

8. But Hannity & the Right Wing Noise Machine are saying exactly the same thing.

Sean Hannity is warning that data mining and surveillance are "very clear violation[s] of the Fourth Amendment," a drastic change for the Fox News host, who was a loud defender of National Security Agency surveillance during the Bush administration.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/12/sean-hannity-on-nsa-surveillance-then-and-now/194437

[ellenfl]

13. imo, the verbiage used has a rightward slant. not a neutral piece by virtue of the words/tone. eom

[DJ13]

7. socially left leaning, financially firmly on the right

It IS the paper of the city with Wall St.

[Eleanors38]

9. Ask Carlos Slim. He loaned NYT 1/4 billion $.

[flamingdem]

11. They've had financial difficulties since the 90s

so that's not surprising. They need to work their social media online aspect much more to stay competitive.

[lpbk2713]

12. Whichever way the wind blows.

I think they are basically driven by what sells the most copies or the most subscriptions.