I don’t see the New York Times as being center left. They’re very much centrist pro-corporate. Pick your issue and think back over the last few decades and you’ll probably see that.

Everyone has their own favorite issues that they can use to determine how they would classify each newspaper. For me, I look at how the newspaper reported on national healthcare when Obama was President and then on economic issues, and in particular housing, in more recent years.

It’s not like the Times has to take a position all the time, but if they aren’t even properly covering a center-left position, it shows what they think. And of course they regularly take positions by publishing editorials and opinions.