:i agree with that. i pick up the newspaper here in nyc and while it has an uneven quality, it's certainly not some raving religious rag. not as familiar with online version. anyway, about the use of sources for the basic fact of saying that it's a newspaper please see wp:primary " A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge." Also, the policy on that used to be that primary sources could be used to make basic, non-controversial statements about themselves. This is kind of obvious and commonsensical. viz New_York_City_Fire_Department.  
 :of course, we are not going to quote epoch times saying epoch times is the Best Newspaper in New York City, but we can certainly use them as a source for the fact that they are a newspaper that publishes a daily edition in New York. monsoon