Civics: Accuracy and the NYT

Jessica Lessin:

and they updated it to ‘led’ … which says something – of course no correction or explanation (yet again back to the fact that they need to be before congress — publicly documenting their editorial practices & held accountable for whatever process they outline)

Is it normal for Nature to highlight a paper and spend more time quoting two people who didn’t do the research, than the authors of the paper? I’ve never noticed this before