The editors at The New York Times wanted NYT reporter Stephanie Strom to kill the ACORN-Obama story because “it was a game changer.”

The New York Times’ Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Catherine Mathis … wrote, “In response to your questions to our reporter, Stephanie Strom, we do not discuss our newsgathering and won’t comment except to say that political considerations played no role in our decisions about how to cover this story or any other story about President Obama.”

It could mean nothing, I guess, but… Is it me, or is there anything strange — or should I say telling? — that in a story about the 2008 campaign prior to election day, the New York Times would think nothing of referring to stories about the Democrats' candidate as stories about "President Obama"?