[WikiEN-l] NY Times considers BLP issues

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 26 Aug 2007 at 09:54:09 -0700, William Pietri 
<william at 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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