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Why do journalists so rarely link to the actual court documents when talking about a complaint? Anyways, here it is: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/go

• saaaaaam 2y ago
  Often because they have paid for it via pacer so don’t want to give it away to competitors for free. Or because they’ve got it via a back door and don’t want to link to it and reveal that.
• nimish 2y ago
  Because it'd reveal they usually aren't much more than a summarizer run on the court doc. Middlemen hate to show you what they actually do.
  • jahsome 2y ago
    Many journalists do upload/link to documents, and add quite a bit of context to the documents. OC appears to confuse bloggers with journalists. Speaking from personal experience, the number of people who click on links for raw documents is an _extremely_ small subset. Most people don't even read past the headline let alone the lede.
• geoffeg 2y ago
  Because it links away from their site. They want to keep you on the site, clicking more links that can generate revenue for them.