The Times national section today features an article about how the 234 to 195 vote in the House of Representatives against a farm bill "reflects the declining clout of the farm lobby" and "the shift in American population and power to more urban areas."
Fair enough, except that vote (the Times article, as is unfortunately typical, carries no hyperlink to the roll call) was back on June 20. Why should it take 13 days for the Times to figure out and share with readers an explanation of the bill's defeat that is not exactly rocket science in the first place? If the article was bumped from the print paper because of unexpected breaking news, it could have been run on the Times web site, where space is unlimited.
This is an example of how, for all the efforts to speed up the Times' metabolism and adjust to the faster pace of a 24-hour digital news cycle, on some stories the paper can seem glacially slow.