The “All The News That’s Fit to Print” people at The New York Times clearly had a journalistic malfunction overnight. A look at the paper’s Washington edition (the one that landed on our Reston, Virginia doorstep) shows no story on the Republican debate on the front page. Well, surely it’s mentioned at bottom in the text box about what’s inside? No. Well, it’s listed on “Inside the Times” on A-2? No.
You have to find it on A-21, three pages into the National section, right? Actually, no! It’s a Trip Gabriel story on the undercard debate. A trip to the website shows there’s a debate story by Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin on the front page of the New York edition. At the bottom of the online story is the info:
A version of this article appears in print on December 16, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump and Rubio Become Targets in G.O.P. Debate.
That's what the Late Edition showed:
Other national papers – USA Today, The Wall Street Journal – had Republican debate stories on the front page. But the Times must have had some kind of editorial/mechanical breakdown.
Instead, the top stories were the schools threats in Los Angeles and New York and a story bemoaning how the shooting by the “self-professed anti-abortion crusader” at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was “overtaken” by the San Bernardino shooting.
The headline was "Emotions Raw As Focus Shifts From Colorado: Clinic Killings Grabbed Nation, But Briefly."
