You are so right. The same thing happened to me..I grew up in the Bronx and my parents always told me that the NYT was the paper of record, great vocabulary. So when I went to college I would also go to the library to read it and when I went to medical school I also realized that the NYT actually was a worthless piece of propaganda and they are even worse than the Latino newspaper (and ultraliberal) El Diario La Prensa from NYC. So now I refuse to buy a NYT and I know that my sisters who live in NJ refuse to buy that piece of trash, too. So I am happy to see them struggle.