HN has had NYT articles from the beginning:

Spam stock tips work - for spammers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26 - Oct 2006

You aren't going to get far with this community arguing that we should ban nytimes.com. What you (i.e. anyone who cares about this) should do instead is find more substantive, more interesting, and hopefully more neutral articles analyzing the same things, and submit them to HN instead. I can't say I've seen very many of these lately, but presumably some exist.