Not so long ago, The New York Times was the most trusted newspaper in America, maybe even the world.

People bought it and read it because they believed it was a straight shooter.

The quaint Page 1 motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” promised superior judgment and taste. The paper was often boring because it presented the news in a dispassionate fashion and didn’t take sides, but that restraint was the source of its credibility.

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Because of its plodding thoroughness, it was dubbed the “Gray Lady” and the “paper of record.” A popular joke about its importance held that you weren’t dead unless your obit appeared in the Times.

Oh, for the days.

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