Exactly ...think about all the years they covered up for the left ...who knows if blogs were around in Nixon's time ..where people could share thoughts and ideas perhaps he would never have resigned .I look back at the Viet-Nam coverage NYT and Cronkite was how I got all my info ,and I will say it was liberal but pretty accurate as well ....geez I feel like I came out of the stone age

The NY Slimes was biased long before the internet existed.

The NYT will never change. Last summer, one of its staff writers said in a piece meant for all media and students in journalism classes that they were to forget any ethics that they were taught and to take Trump out....maybe not the exact words that he used but very close. When a newspaper employs left wing nut cases like this one and then publishes his garbage, there is no hope that things will change.

"They were a good paper once," long long LONG ago. I was a reader during the Goldwater days, the bias was there but less overt.

Once a good reputation is lost, it never comes back. In this case, it was never deserved.

I remember reading how ten years ago, when blogs were taking off, how they were really struggling against other news outlets. They lamented that blogs used their stuff for free, but people were spending their time reading the blogs. I wonder if they felt pressure to me more like blogs, more lowbrow, with stories that amounted too "look how silly Trump and his supporters look". I also wonder if the Trump campaign snubbed them, most likely not as part of a complex stratagem, and that goaded the NYT into writing these laugh-at-Trump articles that paradoxically helped Trump.

Bullshit.

The Times' letter was good for a laugh or two.

"We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the Presidential campaign. You can rely on the New York Times to bring the same fairness, the same level of scrutiny, the same independence to our coverage of the new president and his team."

Actually, I do expect "the same level" of fairness that the Times exhibited during the campaign. To answer your question, no I don't think they will really change. Based on the quote above, they do not intend to.

To fix this at the NY Times and elsewhere requires staff and policy changes short term.

Long term - Revise the journalism schools so new ones don't start out in the profession already biased.

I do to. They were a good paper once, they could be again. It will take time and effort on their part. I'm just not sure the current crop of people there are capable of it.

I really hope they do. I trusted their reporting. This year they seemed to lose all objectivity. I hope their mea culpa is sincere.