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 | | Nicknamed "The Old Gray Lady" or The Times, this newspaper was founded as The New-York Daily Times in 1851 by Henry J. Raymond and George Jones as a sober alternative to the more partisan newspapers that dominated the New York journalism of the time. |
 | | However, it does have a mix of editorial columnists, ranging in approximate political position (left to right): Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, and Thomas Friedman, William Safire and David Brooks, formerly of The Weekly Standard magazine. |
 | | In 2003, the Times admitted to journalism fraud committed over a span of several years by one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, and the general professionalism of the paper was questioned. |
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