Unfortunately not everyone can or wants to climb over the paywall the nytimes has put in place. (Although imho it definitely is the best newspaper around and I can recommend subscribing it.)
They're still highly corporate and biased in favor of "American (corporate) Interests". e.g. their total lack of coverage of Latin American trade blocs like UNASUR and CELAC (US corporate media as a whole seems to have a permanent news blackout on any positive developments from South America which the USA doesn't dominate, but will cover anything negative, no matter how petty and irrelevant).
e.g:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_StatesPotentially the biggest economic/political event in the hemisphere, yet not a SINGLE searchable reference to this in nytimes online. (google "nytimes celac". The closest nytimes comes to mentioning this is "Celiac disease")
The same with the
Union of South American Nations(UNASUR), but "slightly" better. This political/economic union of the entirety of South America (including an overarching parliament, military alliance etc and working on a single currency), seems to have been mentioned exactly
once in nytimes.
One relevant detail, is that Venezuela was a key player in setting up these (and other regional alliances), which, if the American public were to become aware of, would undermine the rhetoric about Venezuela being politically isolated in South America (in fact, that's projection/propaganda, as it is US allies such as Colombia and the coup leaders in Honduras who are politically isolated).
basically, if they can't keep you informed on actually important affairs in your hemisphere, they're nothing but a rag (if a slightly more liberal rag than NY post). Googling "bbc celac" or "bbc unasur" gives plenty of relevant hits, for comparison. Fuck american media, watch the BBC, they actually give better news about what's happening in America's backyard. BBC aren't perfect but they're a darn sight less blinkered than any American press (except many PBS / NPR)