On 4/6/07, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've noticed an article change or disappear from the NY Times in the
past. One morning an attorney for a major environmental group was
quoted in the NY Times on the subject of electric deregulation as
saying something like nothing bad happened in airline deregulation,
that "airplanes aren't falling from the skies." Later that day US
Air had a plane crash around Pittsburgh PA and either the whole
article or that quote disappeared.
You could say it was good taste to not have that in the paper the
day of a tragedy or you could say that poor analysis was being
protected.
In this case, too, it's not like the original text was so much better
than its replacement, but seeing an essentially new article from the
beginning to the end, with a new byline, which nonetheless has the
same title at the same URL is an Orwellian experience.
--
Yoshie
