NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of Biden's age is retribution

[JohnSJ]

23. Sulzberger allegedly told employees to court conservative readers, so this should come as no surprise.

"According to anonymous sources within the newspaper's staff, upon taking his position in 2018 Sulzburger "told employees explicitly that his biggest concern was that the paper’s audience saw it as a 'liberal rag...' [his] vision for the paper is to change that perception and court conservative readers."[44][45] However, this view was refuted by The Economist, which published a study evidencing a gradual leftward shift in the partisan slant of The New York Times, beginning in 2017.[46] The New York Times' former opinion section editor, James Bennet, in light of the paper's Tom Cotton controversy, also disagreed, arguing that by catering to a partisan readership and an influx of new journalists focusing on digital content the New York Times under A.G. Sulzberger had taken on an "illiberal bias".[47]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._G._Sulzberger

The OP to this thread seems to support the assertion