Brad DeLong has rightly demanding standards:

I receive mammoth value added from the Financial Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg. I receive substantial value added from Knight-Ridder, from the (increasingly uneven) Economist, from the inside-baseball-political news (but not the substantive policy analysis) of the National Journal, and from the news (but definitely not the editorial) pages of the Wall Street Journal.

But value added from the New York Times? A few reporters are good. Others are liars–the kind of people who would agree to claim that a senior administration official is an ex-Capitol Hill staffer. Most don’t know enough about substance to write the stories they are tasked with writing.