One of the most egregious ways that the New York Times demonstrates its liberal bias is by slapping the label "conservative" on conservative news outlets and think tanks, while omitting the "liberal" label when describing liberal news outlets and think tanks.
One recent example comes in a James Stewart column about tax reform in the District of Columbia. Mr. Stewart refers to "the conservative website The Daily Caller" and "conservative supply-side advocates like Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform." But "the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center" gets no ideological label from the Times. Nor does its senior fellow, Steven M. Rosenthal.
Another recent example was a Times news article that refers to "the conservative Washington Examiner" but that also mentions and quotes the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University without mentioning that institution's ideological leanings.
Does the Times really think its readers are such delicate flowers that they need to be warned in advance of the risk that they might be exposed to a conservative opinion? If the Times feels the need to apply these ideological labels, the least it can do is be even-handed about it. Otherwise people might want to start referring to the paper as "the liberal New York Times."