When the Supreme Court's health care ruling was announced, it was almost a full day before the next morning's newspaper was published. Yet most papers played the day-old news as if it were fresh. Sam Kirkland, a copy desk intern at a Florida newspaper, offers a theory: "Here’s my hunch: We went through the motions because it’s how we’ve always done it — and because it makes us feel important ... But newspapers don’t write the first drafts of history any more."
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