Creationism?? Please lets leave the [moderator edit] out of this please. People can believe in stories if they like. The NYTimes is written at an 8th grade level of reading. You may not like what they say, but the paper is heads over most daily newspapers. Great book review on sunday and a real good magazine.
I think the Washington Post is an all round better newspaper, and vastly superior in political coverage. The Post is also biased but it least tries to be objective and actually checks facts which seems to be an optional exercise at the NY Times lately.
The Wall St Journal has been head and shoulders better than NY Times in covering, explaining and investigating this economic crises and if you are in hurry the WSJ Front page is far more useful than then NY Times in getting the news in a few minutes.
USA Today has better sport section. San Jose Mercury News covers technology better. I guess the NY Times still has the best foreign affairs,
I'll grant the NY Times weekend magazine is good. The book reviews can be a fun read but irrelevant.
But debating newspaper qualities is a bit like arguing about which buggy whip is superior 100 years ago.
When Russia rolled into Georgia, how many of us ran out to pick up a NY Times to find out was going on? I turned on CNN, and then immediately hit the net. As far as I am concerned (this goes double for anybody under 30) Google News is superior to the NY Times in every respect. Similarly if I want to see if a book is any good, I can wade through a lengthy review from the NY Times reviews of books, or I can go on to Amazon and read the 4 or 5 of the best reviews, and get more useful information in a fraction of the time.
Yes the NY Times website is pretty good, but unlike the WSJ, they haven't figured out a way of making money with it. I actually pay money for the WSJ, (although that arrangement will end this year if the WSJ tries to raise prices). AFAIK the NY Times is actually a laggard in making money with new media compared to other newspapers.
The NY Times's arrogance, that they are the newspaper of record will ultimately be responsible for their destruction.