Are you unaware of the whole Judith Miller thing? That's a very specific example of how the paper operated as American propaganda and sold an obviously piece of fake news, namely the idea that Iraq had WMDs.
There is an absolute boatload of academic material on how the NY Times acts as a propaganda outlet for US foreign policy and the invasion of Iraq is a typical case study.
Here's some reading for you and those downvoting:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616700412331296383
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532708603262723
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748048508096141
And for a more popular account if you're not down with peer-reviewed academic research, Weapons of Mass Deception by Rampton and Stauber is very readable and quite good. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Deception-Propaganda-Bushs-ebook/dp/B000OCXHLS/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=weapons+of+mass+deception&qid=1567459238&s=gateway&sr=8-5