The reality is that journalism - The New York Times and all others - have one fundamental bias. That bias is that journalism is objective; the easily observable reality is that journalist selects its stories to make journalism seem important.That is, journalism credits the critic rather than "the man who is actually in the arena." Whether that man is providing food, drinking water, fuel, or - e.g., the police and the military - security, journalists and the simpatico politicians whom the journalists label "progressive" promote themselves by tearing down the person who endeavors to get necessary things done.
That is how and why The New York Times - and the rest of Big Journalism - is biased.
In partisan Republican circles, the pursuit of voter fraud is code for suppressing the votes of minorities and poor people.to dismiss charges of widespread voter fraud and voter intimidation as non-problems when it suits their ideological purposes.
You want code? I'll give you code. In partisan Democratic circles (and there is no other kind of Democratic circle):
- opposition to democracy is "Democratic,"
- government is "society" or "the public sector,"
- Civl Rights is opposition to the civil rights of white Americans,
- objective journalism is the self-interested criticism and second guessing of anyone who threatens to earn credit with the public for actually doing something significant or important,
- liberalism or progressivism is the idea that criticism and second guessing of anyone who threatens to earn credit with the public for actually doing something significant or important is objective,
- . . . and the list goes on.
On the issue of the partisanship of the press, the press presumptively is partisan. But then, broadcasting is censored, so broadcast journalism cannot be considered part of "the press" under the First Amendment.