So says the DC chief:

Dean Baquet, the Times Washington bureau chief, told POLITICO that there had been “a relentless effort to get coverage for Freeman and his issues,” but the paper has to make choices with how to use resources and personnel.
“The main reason we haven’t covered it until something happened is that this is not high enough a job for us to cover relentlessly with all the things going on Washington,” Baquet added.

When a bunch of U.S. attorneys were replaced in a routine and familiar fashion, it was a huge scandal, according to the Times. A guy with dodgy, pro-Beijing, pro-Saudi views running U.S. intelligence assessments — no big deal. One political maxim is: Personnel is policy. The New York Times’s maxim: Avert thine eyes!

We now have a working definition of “All the news that’s fit to print.”