The NY Times has a long history of knowingly false reporting, the most egregious of which occurred when their Moscow Bureau Chief, Walter Duranty (who was pro-Soviet and who loved being wined and dined by Soviet bigwigs), told his readers that the Holodomor wasn't happening, there were no food shortages, no mass starvation deaths in Ukraine, etc. He got a Pulitzer for his efforts, and the Times, while much later admitting Duranty's reporting was a pack of lies, never saw fit to repudiate his Pulitzer.
They are beneath contempt.