Why don’t the LAT and NYT (and Time, and Newsweek, and The New Republic, etc.**) accurately disclose to their readers the date they were actually finalized (e.g. the date they were printed)? They could easily do it. The reason they don’t is because readers prefer to read the latest information, and the publications want their customers to think they are getting information that’s more up-to-date than it actually is. In other words, it’s not just an unavoidable problem, or trivial lack of disclosure. It’s conscious deception for commercial gain!
They’d certainly be hard on another industry that did that sort of thing.