The NY times article regarding Mr Rosenstein

[Chickensoup]

has the aura of the timing of the Comey letter a week before the 2016 election.
WHY they did it ???????

[Little Star]

1. Good question!

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. Michael Schmidt has a problem.

This is the second big story he blew in six months. He needs to be moved to copy editing. Oh. The first was his insistence that the “44 questions” that Mueller listed for a Trumpy interview actually came from the OSC. IT DID NOT. It came from Trumpy’s legal team. Schmidt refused to correct himself. I hope his boss noticed. I did.

[Gothmog]

4. Schmidt was played for a fool

[jrthin]

5. His boss don't care. I loathe the NYT's...the paper of Judith Miller,

Maggie Haberman and Maureen Dowd. This is the paper that constantly had breaking news about Hillary's email during the election. They imho are useless. I do not for a second regret cancelling the Times earlier this year.

[c-rational]

13. Completely agree.

[Sneederbunk]

8. Has he been on any cable shows discussing the story?

[triron]

12. Schmidt is a Trump apologist.

[Anon-C]

3. Yes a historical failure of the Times and journalism not to report on the apparent motives and

...implications of your sources in using your rag for leaks repeatedly. That part in the Rosenstein story where they remind that the NYT newsroom is firewalled from knowledge of the Anonymous OP-ED writer as that was the Editors ...that's manipulative and not advancing the truth in spirit of fact.

[Historic NY]

6. Failing NY Times......yup

Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.

see Yellow Journalism today.

[still_one]

7. I have an issue with how they slanted the story without giving an accurate picture of context

Obviously they want to maintain the Judy Miller tradition

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Mr. Ected]

10. Though the conspiracy theory crowd on the right will literally believe anything

I read a theory from one of them that said that if Trump fires Rosenstein, the liberal base will become inflamed and will vote in droves in November.

Maybe they'd then have a scapegoat in the NYT for the Blue Wave we knew was coming anyway.

[vi5]

11. This is why we can't fall for the "enemy of my enemy" bullshit....

DU and Dems in general tend to fall for this shit way too often.

"Oh, Trump hates the NY times and the media? We LOVE the NY times and the media!!!!"

"Oh, Trump hates Jeff Bezos? YAY JEFF BEZOS!!!"

"Trump hates James Comey? JAMES COMEY IS AN AMERICAN HERO!!!!"

Fuck all of that. Every last bit of it.

[peekaloo]

15. .

[GeorgeGist]

14. Firing Rosenstein would boost earnings for NYT!