The Washington Post ranks it left-leaning up there with Al Jeezera which is so far left I can't stand to read it.
>A lot of us live in places where NYT would be seen as quite right wing.
Sweden? Half joking, but the "standing so far left that even the left looks right" is something I mentioned in another reply. I don't think being an extreme-left makes slight-left any less left. I don't feel it is a Fox News "Liberal in name only" scenario. Even I can see the conservative slants on talking points in Fox news.
I'm Norwegian, but live in the UK. Even by UK standards, that are fairly right wing for Europe, the NYT would be rather unlikely to be considered left wing by most. They might be accepted as "social liberal", which is traditionally centre right most places. The might have fit on the left before ca. 1870...
> "standing so far left that even the left looks right"
Except that it's the US that pretty much represents the big aberration in terms of what is considered left and right today. In part because it's in the US what almost everyone else considers their left wing was pretty much crushed from the 20's onwards, back when there were actual socialists running for office on a regular basis. The political centre in US politics slid to the right by virtue of your actual left disintegrating and never recovering, followed by the big democrat/republican switcheroo on civil rights.
Of course, these are all subjective measures, since by the original left/right measure, the split would be bizarre today (the original split was between supporters and opponents of the monarchy in the French national assembly).
> Even I can see the conservative slants on talking points in Fox news.
Meanwhile, most European conservatives would be embarrassed by being compared to the kind of stuff spouted on Fox News. Their talking points are in line with the kind of right wing populists that regularly gets compared to fascists here, even by many on the right.
To tie that back in with the original discussion, Jeff Bezos bought the paper in mid-2013 [0], so a change in ownership may reflect the paper's changed editorial direction.
