Obviously, that logic is utter b.s.
The NYT, among other major media outlets, are always on the lookout for a pretense to amplify and spin stories in favor of the right wing.
They will often omit, bury, or downplay the left side; but the right wing side is always present and almost always given equal, superior, or even sole footing.
Remover how they framed the Hillary email nonsense as a freeroll smear on Hillary -- either she did something criminal and disqualifying or she didn't. Republicans couldn't lose with this framing, and democrats couldn't win. At best we could escape. Even when the scandal was proven to amount to nothing, she was still smeared enough to lose the election.
How often did the Times or anyone else in the media frame it as a partisan smear campaign, an illegal abuse of congressional investigatory powers, a baseless investigation that never should have taken place, that was highly unlikely to ever result in any criminal charges or legislative changes, that there was no probable cause of any crime, and no evidence of any leak or compromise of anything classified?
Even liberal commentators felt forced into the no-win defense against accusations mode most of the time.
Our media has gone vastly downhill. This has been a long-term project of the right, and they've been spending billions over decades to do so, and liberals have simply not responded in kind. There is still no apparent effort to raise the billions needed to restore genuine journalism.
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