Paper of record?

I'm not sure when and how the NY Times became cast as a 'liberal' news source. It's indicative, I think, of how much influence a few well placed conservative pundits have had on the political discourse in this country and the well intentioned but the passive way the American journalistic establishment has reacted to that pressure. I'm glad to see that recently we've has some push back on that score, the result of which for me anyway is that the mainstream media will have to start doing their jobs again. In some cases, they're resisting as this story indicates.