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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.

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.

Because it links away from their site. They want to keep you on the site, clicking more links that can generate revenue for them.

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.