Hey Limey,
Yeah its a pretty big amount of coverage, and NYT is basically the national paper. The Washington Post is generally preferred only when it comes to the hard core, downtown, insider politics of our misbegotten national government elites. The NYT doesnt live here and cant really get a platinum-level account in the Washington DC "favor bank." Even today, some things still gotta be done vis-a-vis.
But y'all just say "Times" dont you. Here we invariably write "NY Times" in deference to London.
Only partisan Republicans and big business peeps stick to the Wall Street [Neocon] Journal, which has also had a fair amount of coverage. Oh yeah, and we irrelevant (and yet bitter) neanderthal paleocons, negligible in number but punching above our weight, also prefer it (ahem, BARELY!).
ALL academic scientists here, literally over 90% (probably 95), are left of our center, generally havent the time for insider politics, and only read the NYT. I'm not sure whether things are equally slanted among private industry's scientists, but I dont think its all that different.
I hope all this will help reduce the credibility of CDC when they inevitably publish some paper using a "CFS" prevalence of 2.4%, six times the one found by Leonard Jason and ten times the one found by that other dude.