Because they hate him, they broke their own rules of fairness. Let that sink in
The Gray Lady feels the agony of political defeat — in her reputation and in her wallet.
After taking a beating almost as brutal as Hillary Clinton’s, the New York Times made an extraordinary appeal. The publisher’s letter to subscribers was part apology and part defense of its campaign coverage.
Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. admitted the paper failed, while insisting his staff had “reported on both candidates fairly,” he also vowed that the paper would “rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor.”
Times reporters saw Trump “as an abnormal and potentially dangerous candidate” and thus couldn’t be even-handed.
That wasn’t one reporter talking — it was policy.
The standards, developed over decades to force reporters and editors to be fair and to build public trust, were effectively eliminated as too restrictive for the Trump phenomenon.
The man responsible for that rash decision, top editor Dean Baquet, later said that “nailed” his thinking. Baquet also said of the "struggle" for fairness, “I think that Trump has ended that struggle.”
Mocked even by liberals for its bias, the paper is also apparently bleeding readers — and money.
https://nypost.com/2016/11/11/new-york-times-we-blew-it-on-trump/