The reality is that the NYT like most papers has lost lots of subscribers. In order to survive, they have identified their core audience, which clearly is "cosmopolitan Democrats" - a nearly hereditary professional caste of lawyers, journalists, publicists, and intellectuals, an increasingly hereditary caste of politicians, tight coteries of cultural movers-and-shakers richly sponsored by multinational corporations. That lot "trusts" the Times and will buy their product religiously, under the cognitive dissonance that the NYT is "unbiased." In that context, why would the Times risk alienating some hardcore socialist in Greenwich Village with an unbiased article or headline?
This chart, for me, says it all...you see where voters got their news. Those media outlets KNOW this breakdown, and will carry on with their bias. Per Pew:
