Neither Mr. Ettore nor any other person on this site has tried to argue that the NYT isn’t biased toward the left.

The question seems to be, is the NYT falling apart and if so, why. There are plenty of commenter’s in this thread that have said outright that they abandoned the NYT because of it’s left wing bias. I haven’t heard from anybody that said they abandoned the paper subscription and started reading it online instead. Furthermore, it seems very unlikely to me that stock prices would go down while overall readership remained constant. You would first have to argue that the NYT is being horribly mis-managed for that to make sense.

Therefore, it seems to me that political bias is at least partly responsible for the decline in readership (and increase in financial difficulties) of the NYT.