My unpopular opinion is that the NYT actually did a pretty •good• job of reporting the run-up to the Iraq War, and we remember the Judith Butler megafail precisely because it •stood out• as unusually bad. I knew her reporting was almost certainly wrong when it came out because of other context I got •from reading the NYT•.
Now the whole paper is rife with uranium-tube-style slop every day. The uranium tubes fiasco wouldn’t even stand out if it happened today.