This was a tiredness/bad short term memory error because I am British and the comment I referred to just said “the Times”. I do in fact know that the NYT is not Murdoch; the Times (of London) is.

My declining brain jumped the tracks.

FWIW my comment still seems pretty accurate even applied to the NYT. The NYT is without a doubt the better publication to share the short moniker, don’t get me wrong. For all its many contemporary faults, it’s the world’s greatest newspaper. But the BBC’s arts coverage puts it in the shade.

Or perhaps they know it has been owned by News Corp since 1981 - Murdoch owned

The Times of London