The lead news article on the front page of the Times is a dispatch from Youngstown, Ohio, about a statewide economic boom.
The article reports: "Ohio's unemployment rate in July was 5.7 percent, well below the national average of 6.1 percent." Reader-contributor-watchdog-participant-content co-creator-community member Colin points out that while 5.7 percent is below 6.1 percent, whether it is "well below" is a questionable judgment call. The Times could have avoided it by simply writing, "Ohio's employment rate in July was 5.7 percent; the rate for the nation as a whole was 6.1 percent." Or something like that. Times readers, most of them, are intelligent enough to know that 5.7 is less than 6.1 without the Times explaining it to them.
The article goes on: "Kravitz Delicatessen in the nearby suburb of Liberty has a Vallourec sandwich on the menu (corned beef and pastrami with Swiss cheese and coleslaw), a testament to how much business the 75-year-old Jewish-style deli draws from green-vested Vallourec workers, and from catering corporate events." The meat and cheese together is a combination that may make readers question whether the descriptor "Jewish-style" is accurate or necessary to apply to the deli.
Finally, the most glaring thing of all is that the Times manages to write a top-of-the-front page news article about the Ohio economic boom without mentioning, even once in the article, the governor who presided over the boom, John Kasich, who is a Republican. It's omissions like that that cause readers to wonder whether the Times has a partisan bias.