Comparing RT with the NYT is closer to apples to apples.
From what I've read, the NYT's, has had a playbook agenda by it's neocon owners, to destroy Russia. They never give the other side of the argument. They are supporting an empire against a weak and now isolated country.
The RT is supporting it's country in a more nuanced and truthful way.
To read both, objectively , is hard for biased people, but so far the RT is winning.
RT is like what Voice of America was during the Cold War.