On 8/26/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
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.
--
== Dan ==
Was this anticipation on Orwell's part? Stalin personally ordered my
grandfather disappeared from history archives (grandpa really
personally pissed him off, and it escalated over the years) long
before Orwell wrote the book, which is, after all about Stalin's
Soviet Unioin. And, yes, the Soviets reprinted the old rewritten
newspapers and distributed them to the stacks--not that anybody has
access to them, anyhow.
KP