Remember in 1984, where Winston's job was to revise newspapers of the past to keep up with the ever changing present? This is very interesting. A couple years ago, during the Katrina disaster, I linked to a CNN report and quoted it:
Overnight, police snipers were stationed on the roof of their precinct, trying to protect it from gunmen roaming through the city, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported.
One New Orleans police sergeant ...
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This story illustrated how CNN has changed the historical record of its reports. Using an incendiary frightening report from CNN during hurricane Katrina the author shows that CNN has re-written the story and posted it in its archives without any notation that the story has been corrected or edited.
The story is a little cryptic. What was the truth in the situation. Who filed the original story? Who changed the posting? Why? Where else have notable web postings been changed after the original posting? Rewriting of history is a serious problem. US history schoolbooks are notorious for their omittions. More detail would be good here. More breadth would provide setting.
quite a story....Makes me less fearful of my oncoming senility, 'it wasn't my memory they changed the news ' toba it does not account for the lack of curiosity by MSM.
An important highlight made by this blogger. Deeper digging, such as giving CNN a chance to explain itself, would have made this a far more powerful revelation.
This is alarming. That CNN is rewriting old stories is bad enough; that they don't label the stories as rewritten is completely unacceptable. I'd love to hear CNN's explanation. I hope they have a good one -- but I'm not feeling optimistic.
Interesting story. One can't ever count on web pages to *exist* forever, but I haven't heard before of such a major organization as CNN just re-writing history post facto. Worrying.
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