For a more timely example, please recall the whole 1619 debacle, in which the NYT published and subsequently defended a slander against our own American history. The article claimed that preserving the institution of slavery was "one of the primary reasons" for the American Revolution. Even after this claim (among others) was trashed by prominent academic historians, the NYT editorial board defended the article (in a manner scarcely discernible from lying), and only issued a correction after the historians persisted in their criticism. The correction, it should be noted, merely replaced the blatant lie with a masterfully crafted phrase which was clearly intended to imply the very same lie.

This is not the behavior of an organization with a commitment to the truth.

[0] Original Critique and NYT response: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-th...

[1] Historians' response: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-proje...

[2] NYT Issues Correction: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the...