NYT's demise started in 2014, when they replaced their executive editor with this guy named Dean Baquet, who aggressively pushed the unarmed-black-teen-shot-in-the-back meme. They also sold a significant share of their stock to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, and started leaning heavily on the Dreamers narrative.

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Everyone loves to make fun of CNN and MSNBC as fake news (and they are!), but it originates upstream of them, with NYT.