I don't know. What prevents people from purposely foreshadowing? Like, I was
looking at a millennium terror alert article in Time, and Bin Laden was only
one of eight people to be afraid of. A "Supplementary" Wikinews could put
much greater evidence on him, giving bias to the then distant future of
2001.
Or if I were to report on the release of the Massey Commission (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Commission ), what's to stop me from
focusing the serious and still relevant report up for laughs, by
highlighting the newspaper industry's fear of facsimile machines cutting
into their profits? This was not the highlight of the report, yet to a
modern nerd, it very well might be.
Nick
"The vigorous brief of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association was devoted
entirely to a discussion of the consequences to the present newspaper
business if the new device of facsimile broadcasting should become, as seems
possible, an effective and popular rival to newspapers as we know them. We
can claim only an imperfect knowledge of this new medium of communication.
In brief, as we understand it, this process can deliver directly into the
home a printed newspaper as readily and by essentially the same means as
radio and television are now received. No printing machinery or delivery
services are needed, and any radio station could go into the newspaper
business for a small fraction of the investment required to establish a
normal newspaper. The Canadian Daily Newspapers Association states that this
development will attract newcomers to the newspaper field, and that the
facsimile reader will be able in his home to dial any one of several
newspapers just as now he tunes his receiving set to radio programmes."
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/massey/h5-412-e.html