Maybe it's a new editor at the New York Times

On the top of the front page of Sunday's New York Times is a big article about how Mitt Romney praised the accomplishments of a private university that happens to be owned by one of his big contributors. Oh, the horror! Romney's statement might actually help this university and thereby help his contributor. The Times does not say that Romney's statement was untrue, just that it praised the university's accomplishments. Contrast this to the way the Times reported on Solyndra. Solyndra, of course, is the company where president Obama direct half a billion dollars to a company whose main investor was a major Obama contributor. Solyndra is also the company for which Obama's people agreed to let the private investor/campaign contributor get his money out before the federal government got repaid, a blatant violation of federal law. Solyndra is also the company that went bankrupt leaving the US taxpayer with a loss of $584 million dollars while the campaign contributor got his funds back. When the Solyndra story broke, the Times did not cover it on the first day and then buried it in the back pages of the paper. Only once other media played up the story did the Times think the story merited a higher profile.
Of course, since the Solyndra story, the Times replaced its editor in an effort to stem the loss of readers and advertisers plaguing the paper. Too bad the Times did not decide to go back to its ways of 50 years ago and focus on actual news not a political agenda.