Quoting Professor Gian Giacomo Migone’s The United States and Fascist Italy, page 43:

But the most authoritative newspaper of record in the United States, after some initial hesitation, had grandly opened the discussion of Fascism as an international model. In fact, the New York Times clearly took a positive position toward the Fascist cause. After a few days of reticence, the first‐page headlines read: “An Italy Transformed”; “A Great Wave of Patriotism Re‐unites All Classes Under Mussolini”; “Workmen and Employers Combine in Sacrifice for the General Good”; “Bolshevism Stamped Out …” The Rome correspondent allowed his political leanings to show clearly, and the New York editorial staff, responsible for writing the headlines, did not tone down the favorable stance. The content of the article revealed the author’s scorn for the defeated régime, as well as his participatory enthusiasm for the new: “A new set of young men is now in office …”; “Mussolini has torn the veil from the fetish of communism …”; “The spirit of mutual courtesy and toleration exists in relations between one class and another”; and so on. It appeared that the myth of early Fascism had been swallowed whole and regurgitated for the American populace in the pages of the most important daily paper of the United States. […] The New York Times was not only the most important but also the most democratic of the major daily newspapers of its time.

(Emphasis added.)