It’s How You Play the Game!

This has been a stunning week, unlike any other, for Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. For perhaps the first time in recorded history each called for an end, or at least a curtailment, of special interest groups such as the so-called American Civil Liberties Union and NOW (National Organization for Women). [...]

Within a week of McCain essentially claiming the nomination the NY Times runs a hit piece that it could have probably have run weeks or months earlier
In other words, they wait for someone to secure the nomination then release it knowing the story will hurt the nominee in the general election as opposed to [...]