Oh, I agree with you. But it's an excellent newspaper nonetheless. Maybe the only better one is The Wall Street Journal. If one were to read the NYT and watch the news coverage on Fox News, you probably would get a "fair and balanced" view of the political spectrum on any given issue. But in either case, one needs to make sure to differentiate between the editorials and opinions in the Times and what I'll call the "entertainment" shows on Fox.

Actually, I think the best and most balanced political discussion show on TV is The Morning Joe on MSNBC on early weekday mornings. The co-hosts are Joe Scarborough, the conservative ex-Congressman from Florida, and Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of foreign affairs expert Zbigniew Brzezinski. Joe and Mika back themselves up with carefully chosen panelists each morining from both the left and the right. Then they run the show so that there is an intelligent discussion of whatever issues they choose to discuss each morning. There's seldom an "answer", of course. But when they finish the discussion on a particular issue, you feel pretty good about understanding the positions of each side.