Um, Adolph was the publisher printing Walter Duranty's work...
The rot apparently started long before Pinch sped up the Slimes downward spiral.
Pity that the rest of the media decided not to learn from history and provide BHO the same cover that Ochs/Duranty provided Stalin.
You're quite right as I reflect upon it further. Even their touted coverage of RMS Titanic in 1912 has its share of factual errors and half-truths.
I suppose the last era of its integrity was when Henry Raymond (onetime RNC chair) still had the paper before its ruination by the Ochs-Dryfoos-Sulzberger clan.