IMHO, here you have the "paper of record" giving you a new, breaking news "gift horse" that you want to shuffle off out of sight, when it deserves the widest dissemination
How is it that OJ Simpson and Madonna were breaking news and a new scientific conclusion isn't. OK, so the jocks like to make fun of the geeks, but that's only until the geeks fire them and tell them to work for someone else.