Outing an Anchor

Having already run one column making the point that no one much cared when the web site Gawker ran an item outing a Fox News anchor as gay, the New York Times bizarrely runs a second news article making pretty much the same exact point. If the point is that the Fox News anchor's sexual orientation isn't particularly newsworthy — and, agreed here, it isn't — then the second article in the Times emphasizing that point sort of undermines the contention. If it's so un-newsworthy, why run two news articles about it?