Did they change the headline after you posted this? Tonight at 10:30pm Central time, the headline is:
Blair's Rising Star Runs Into a Treacherous Future
Yes, they changed it. It might not have been from it being criticized here, though. The headline was so overwhelmingly bad that I'm sure others complained directly to them.
We will not win until after the publisher of the New York Times dies of old age along with his wacky sister.