And then you have those old articles from years ago.

And the "as it happened" is still there, making it awkward.

like the 'live action'

Or the logos on books in a flashy thing: "NEW EDITION"... yeah no, next year it's not.

I wonder how in all the decades of online journalism they haven't gotten a system to have a flag "[x] as it happened" they can set, which automatically expires when "last edit" date is more than a week or something.

Same for "NOW LIVE" and "ONGOING EVENT" or something ...

Or in software, using the old-stockfiles. The new ones are only 10y old now

I think it can be useful as a way of tagging an article, implying that there’s a timeline or a blow-by-blow account, as opposed to an analysis or explanation of something.