Note this reputation and process might be apart from issues of bias: the New York Times is thought by many to have a center-left bias and the Wall Street Journal a center-right bias, and USA Today is ...Note this reputation and process might be apart from issues of bias: the New York Times is thought by many to have a center-left bias and the Wall Street Journal a center-right bias, and USA Today is prone to centrist bias — yet fact-checkers of all political stripes are happy to be able to track a fact down to one of these publications since they have reputations for a high degree of accuracy, and issue corrections when they get facts wrong.