I wouldn’t attribute this to some desire to avoid accountability to stealth edits. Sure, archiving and accountability may be lost, but this is about money. NYT

I wouldn’t attribute this to some desire to avoid accountability to stealth edits. Sure, archiving and accountability may be lost, but this is about money. NYT is behind a paywall. Internet Archive is a well known way to get around that paywall. Managers made a profit based decision but don’t want to confirm it, because that would make the NYT look too much like a profit driven corporation and detract from their journalistic image. But they care about the money angle way more than they care about someone knowing if they edited a section title after publishing.