The story of two Pulitzer-nominated reporters leaving Tulsa World just after they broke the story about Robert Bates' training seemed bizarre at first, but perhaps it's just bizarre timing. Then again, it's interesting that the Tulsa Sheriff made a point of appearing on Lawrence O'Donnell's show to rebut their report (video above). Talking Points Memo reports: Two reporters have resigned from an Oklahoma newspaper after publishing an article that alleged supervisors in the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office were ordered to falsify training records for a white reserve deputy charged with manslaughter in the shooting of an unarmed black man, the newspaper's executive editor confirmed Monday to TPM. Staff writer Dylan Goforth and enterprise editor Ziva Branstetter of The Tulsa World newspaper published a report Thursday that cited multiple anonymous sources alleging supervisors had signed off on firearms certifications and field training that Reserve Deputy Robert Bates did not complete.read more