throwaway6612
Putting things in air has been possible for ~120 years.
You’ve cherry-picked a few stories where the NYT leaned more right, but on the whole the NYT, WaPo, and NPR certainly lean liberal or left of the general American public. The point of labels like right,left, liberal, conservative, etc. are relative valuations to the general American public. Just because the NYT leans less to the left on issues you are more to the left on does not make the NYT right-leaning.
But the value of pointing to things and saying they’re right or left or conservative or liberal is a relative valuation measured relative to the general American public. And relative to the general American public the NYT is liberal. Just because you are more liberal than the NYT doesn’t make the NYT conservative.
I didn’t think there was much debate on this point, it’s rather well documented/easily searchable online. If you genuinely think NPR’s editorial content has turned more right from the left, you are probably operating on a different scale than the general American public. There has also been a lot more scandals with their editorial content and the information accuracy in recent years with the bias being more and more left.