Yep. The infighting is delicious, but it needs to spill-out in critically humiliating ways other than what looks like a PR SNAFU.
Using the Michael Moore/Mother Jones debacle as a blueprint, the GOP needs to send in a 'relationship assassin' who inserts themselves into the lives of NYT-staffers, creating a state of constant turmoil in the newsroom. The odds increase that the paper will then commit a monumental gaffe of some sort.