A great newspaper no more. I buy it on Saturdays and weekends, primarily for the puzzles, but also to get my blood pressure up. There are rarely articles any more that just report the news. Most articles are opinion pieces thinly disguised as reporting. And even in an otherwise plain vanilla piece, the Times reporters (who are overwhemingly young) often can't resist throwing in some tangential commentary on Trump or victimhood, or both.
Two examples from today:
In the middle of an article about apparent anomalies in the distribution of remdesivir, the reporter notes that a hospital in Massachusetts serving a primary black population isn't getting any. Trump is a racist. So are most republicans.
Two long articles about the dropping of the Michael Flynn case barely contain the reporters' outrage, implying the action was part of a conspiracy or worse. The articles contain virtually no mention of any facts about the case itself. In the Times' world, prosecutions against republicans are always justified but those against democrats are always political vendettas.
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