What?
"Why should they get a free pass?"
The New York Times is a News organization, and doesn't buy up political influence wholesale, like Citizens United was meant to approve of.
Before Citizens United, if the Times had bought unlimited political advertising -- even their OWN advertising -- they, like any other business, would have been in violation of election laws.
This is only a "fuzzy line" to those unequipped to think of it in the proper terms. Stop watching FUX, for starters, and you will have fewer lies to sift through.