Would you really be convinced by any critique of the New York Times coming from a conservative source? There are many of them and they&#x27;re not hard to find.<p>If not, you could do worse than just reading the column of the New York Times&#x27; public editor, who&#x27;s responsible for handing questions from readers and issues of journalistic integrity. Often, when coverage is particularly slanted, some acknowledgement of that will eventually show up there. For instance, here&#x27;s what she wrote on the New York Times&#x27; Benghazi coverage:<p><i>Here’s my take: The angry criticism of The Times on Benghazi has been based largely on politics, not journalism, and fomented by Fox News. (The conspiracy narrative goes like this: The Times is a liberal newspaper unwilling to take on a liberal president and his administration.) In fact, what’s been written in The Times has been solid. But my sense is that, starting last fall, The Times has had a tendency to both play down the subject, which has significant news value, and to pursue it most aggressively as a story about political divisiveness rather than one about national security mistakes and the lack of government transparency. Many readers would like to see more on that front, and so would I.</i><p>This can cut both ways, of course - I recall how she recently found the NYT&#x27;s coverage was being regrettably dismissive of Bernie Sanders.