If there is one thing savvy consumers of political news should have learned over the years, it's to never take news about political candidates — or the responses of people in the political arena to that news — at face value without considering when it is released and who benefits from it. That’s not to say that it’s all lies and conspiracies; most campaign-season stories are at least partially true. But journalists are often fed information by people with agendas, and the journalists and their editors often have agendas, too. Both of those things affect when and where stories get ...