Isn’t the NYT the same newspaper that endorsed Stalin’s actions while he was committing genocide? I see they haven’t changed, either.
Their star correspondent Walter Duranty did give a hearty endorsement of Joseph Stalin.
Stalin’s Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times’s Man in Moscow [Hardcover]
S.J. Taylor (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Apologist-Walter-Duranty-Timess/dp/0195057007