In fact, why would anybody ever have wanted to read the NYT?
I used to read the New York Times for the laughs. I think some dufus reporter and editor once described a Barrett .50 as a semi-automatic machine gun. After awhile the laughs turned into general disgust over the inaccuracies even in the non-political articles.
The biggest state rag has editing and fact checking that put the New York Times to shame.