While the conservative media pundits like to rail against the NYT, it's actually a very reputable news source that fact-checks articles and issues retractions when it is wrong. Sure it's a bit left-leaning in the topics they report on, but they're usually not wrong.
Agreed. I tend to think of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal as being mirror images of each other: they're both reputable and based in NYC [0], but the NYT has a liberal bent and the WSJ has a conservative one.
[0]: Being based in the largest city of the east coast gives them a different set of biases, which aren't entirely political.
