Why did the NYT need a corporate jet?
Seriously. One can at least partially rationalize a large auto manufacturer, with plants all over the world, needing a corporate jet.
Or a major bank, with facilities and branches dispersed widely.
But a newspaper?
The jet is 12 years old. That means they bought it in 1997, more or less, during the regime of the clintonoids. NYT was feeling its oats back then, having the Newty republicans out on an impeachment limb and on the run and all.
Alas! How the mighty have fallen, eh Pinch?