Why didn't the NYT publish this report before the election?

I'm reading "The Hidden Truth Linking the Broken Border to Your Online Shopping Cart/The incoming Trump administration promises an immigration crackdown. But for years, the on-demand economy has been fueled by unscrupulous staffing agencies exploiting migrant workers."

This would have been useful to voters. Too useful, I suspect. This issue seems to have been suppressed, papered over by Trump-is-a-racist rhetoric. "Hidden truth," indeed.

"America is not going to save Ukraine. Maybe we need Mr. Trump — brazen and unscrupulous — to finally say so out loud and act accordingly."

Writes Megan K. Stack, in "Trump Can Speed Up the Inevitable in Ukraine" (NYT)(free-access link).

"Ukrainians would be hung out to dry, and Mr. Putin could end up attacking again or expanding his imperial designs to other neighbors. Mr. Trump should do it anyway."

Now that the election's over, MSM is free — and selfishly motivated — to present Trump in a favorable light.

The Mika/Morning Joe confabulation with Trump is just one manifestation of this phenomenon, which I'm seeing popping up wherever I look this morning. I need a tag to keep these things together so we can see the pattern. I was thinking of: Now we like him. 

They don't like him that much. They're just taking a different tone and raising issues they'd have suppressed and they're not forcing the old template on everything.