Walled Culture has already written about the two–pronged attack by the copyright industry against the Internet Archive, which was founded by Brewster Kahle, whose Kahle/Austin Foundation supports this blog. The Intercept has an interesting article that reveals another reason why some newspaper publishers are not great fans of the site: The New York Times tried …

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is useful for pointing out if a news site is manipulating a narrative, but for other things, I think news site should get the privacy they need to make stealth edits.

    Like:

    More recently, the Times stealth-edited an article that originally listed “death” as one of six ways “you can still cancel your federal student loan debt.” Following the edit, the “death” section title was changed to a more opaque heading of “debt won’t carry on.”

    This was just poor wording. No reason sites shouldn’t have the peace of mind to change poor wording without being called out.

    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      … What? No, if you need to edit poor wording you add a note establishing that the editor missed a section of poor wording, and that section has been revised.

      You want to do stealth edits? We call those first drafts, and they arent published. Want to hide your edit history? Edit before you post.