You either trust the NYT or you don't. There have certainly been times when I haven't (in the aftermath of Judith Miller printing Dick Cheney's lies about WMD, for example). Trump/Russia/Comey is the sort of story you cannot print without unnamed sources (leakers, whistleblowers, disgruntled employees, whatever you want to call them). So either you completely ignore the biggest story in America, or you rely on unnamed sources.
And the NYT is not dying. Check out their
subscription rates vs. oh, the ratings for Fox News, or the traffic Breitbart's been getting.
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