Quoting Craig Murray TFA:

"The Washington Post, the New York Times, and all the “great liberal media” of the USA are not in court to hear it and do not report it... Are they really so stupid as not to understand that they are next?

Err, yes."

NYT editorial defends the establishment. They are neither left nor right, liberal nor conservative. NYT is the status quo. Exactly and precisely, nothing more and nothing less.

As Murray notes, you'd think their own instinct for self preservation would motivate them to care about US Govt applying the Espionage Act towards the journalists.

But that's not what the NYT does.

I don't know anything about WP, so can't comment.

I'm totally fine with there being a "paper of record". I just wish people who should know better understood the role NYT plays.