That was true in the newspaper era. Now that we're in the web era, they can do both. They could have improved the article immensely without changing any of the

That was true in the newspaper era. Now that we're in the web era, they can do both. They could have improved the article immensely without changing any of the prose, while adding links to the underlying documents. WaPo and the NYT do this regularly. Don't forget the power of hypertext :)