On 26 Aug 2007 at 09:54:09 -0700, William Pietri
<william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
I think this is mainly a historical artifact. It's
only very recently
that articles were even conceivably changeable, and newspapers see
themselves as mainly about the new. What has changed here is that access
to archives is now orders of magnitude easier. What took hours or days
before now takes seconds.
Though, George Orwell anticipated rewritable history when he had the
Party in 1984 go through old newspaper archives and actually reprint
the old issues with articles conforming to today's party line.
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