way the times was in one of the things, kind of a national treasure really because it was a newspaper with enormous reach, huge circulation, big market, bureaus all over the world much of which it still has. what has changed is the long-standing tradition of neutral news coverage is gone and the times now finds itself in these situations where it pursues as it did the trump russia collusion story which there was nothing to it, the story completely collapsed in the end. the new york times would have been more reticent about that. they would have covered the controversy but wouldn t have embarked on that wild goose chase this sort of thing would not have happened because the times was different and the editor of the times, a legendary editor, and a contract guy, he