What has been lost in the dismissal of the New York Times as liberal and the Wall Street Journal as conservative is that these are primarily biases of the news analysis portion of what they do. Even i...What has been lost in the dismissal of the New York Times as liberal and the Wall Street Journal as conservative is that these are primarily biases of the news analysis portion of what they do. Even if you like the perspective of the Observer, if you were asked to bet on the accuracy of two pieces — one from the Observer, and one for the times, you could make a lot of money betting on the Times.