Sadly, this is what I am starting to expect from MSM.
I’m not sure where funding for outlets like NYT or WaPo come from, but thanks to Twitter, funding for CBC in Canada tells us why we would expect this behaviour in Canada.
In Canada, the CBC and Prime Minister were up in arms when Twitter labeled the CBC Twitter account as government funded media. The Prime Minister completely lost it in an interview over this. The CBC went after Twitter and said that they were not government funded, because they make some money from other sources. Since the CBC is in fact mostly funded by the government, you can head on over to https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/first-2022-2023-quarterly-report and see their income for 2022, which apparently Twitter did. I almost spit my rum out when Twitter updated their government funded tag on the CBC account to 69% government funded, which is in fact backed by the link I just shared.
So, when your largest media company is 69% funded by your government, don’t expect to see stories in it that go against the government narrative or cast the government in a dim light.